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David Ross (University of Exeter) attended the Future Tourism Conference, held in York on the 14th September. Organised by the Tourism Society, the event aimed to debate the growing adoption of digital technologies in the tourism industry. Paul Cook, of Planet Planit, spoke about how tourism businesses and organisations can make best use of customer […]

Bournemouth University’s research team have celebrated their success at an international conference in Beijing, China. Their paper, co-authored by Yinyu Nie, Jian Chang, Ehtzaz Chaudhry, Shihui Guo, Andi Smart (University of Exeter) and Jian Jun Zhang, titled “Semantic modeling of indoor scenes with support inference from a single photograph” was selected as the Best Paper […]

They recently celebrated their 30th anniversary and are setting their sights on digital technology: the Valloire Gardens are one of the deployment sites of VISTA AR, a European research project that aims to introduce virtual reality and augmented reality to tourist sites. In July, representatives of NEOMA Business School, the Regional Council of Brittany (Clotilde […]

Peak season has started and Fougères castle is again experiencing an influx of visitors. This is a godsend for NEOMA Business School which headed down there on 4th – 6th July to ask them about their experience. This visitor research is part of the European Research project VISTA AR, which aims to introduce virtual and […]

Laurence Blyth from Exeter Cathedral and Prof. Andi Smart from the University of Exeter talk about the project.

The Bournemouth University research team has given life to the fascinating art treasure of Exeter Cathedral’s Minstrels’ Gallery. The team has completed initial concept modelling and developed scenes for the Gallery. The computer models and their animation are designed to offer visitors a new experience with an Augmented Reality (AR) solution, where music and motion […]

A research paper about semantic modelling of indoor scenes using a single photograph has been invited to be published in a special issue of the journal Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW) by John Wiley. The paper will be presented first at the 31st Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA2018) in Beijing in […]

19th April, Lanhydrock On April 19th members of the University of Exeter met with Ian Marsh, the National Trust’s General Manager for West Cornwall, to discuss how VISTA AR experiences can enhance the Tin Coast visitor experience. The Tin Coast comprises a 7 mile area between Pendeen lighthouse and Cape Cornwall, and is part of […]

Prof. Andi Smart, accompanied by Dr. Pikakshi Manchanda, visited the IBM Client Centre, in Hursley on 1st May 2018. The purpose of the visit was to have a discussion with IBM about a possible research collaboration with the VISTA AR project. There are various services and tools that IBM has developed over the years that […]