Where did Immersive Heritage come from? The inspiration for our work began in 2019 when our founder, an archaeologist, was collaborating on a temporary museum exhibition based on work that her research unit had completed. The topic of the exhibit appealed to her colleagues from near and far, but it was open for a very short time – just two weeks! Since the research itself was publicly funded, she and her colleagues wanted to ensure that their work could be readily available, but archiving an interactive exhibition (which you can see in this walkthrough video) posed a tricky problem. Looking for ways to digitally curate museum displays, a spark of interest was ignited. How can an interactive learning space be curated digitally? First the interest became a hobby, where she started thinking about how players engage with different types of games, from simple puzzles up through complex open world role playing games. Then the hobby became a passion, as she started taking on new skills in game development, museum curation, and different programming languages. Now, the passion has become a new way of approaching heritage communication, where a visitor to a museum might play a simple game on their mobile to learn more about an object, or a person might explore the evolution of a town’s historic district from their PC, or a teacher might turn their classroom into a temporary exhibition space with tablets and augmented reality. #immersiveheritage #whereitallbegan #playthepast #goingdigital #temporaryexhibition #interactivedisplay #museumathome #gamedev #devlog #heritageexplained #archaeologyexplained #experimentalarchaeology #madewithunrealengine (at Amsterdam, Nederland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch5BRViKxO-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
