International Spotlight Heritage Student Contest 2021 finalist at the 2022 MEDEA Awards
The 14th MEDEA awards ceremony took place on Thursday, June 2, in Leuven City Hall, as part of Media & Learning Conference 2022organized by KU Leuven and the Media & Learning Association. Through 2022 finalists there is also the team that developed the interactive virtual reality application developed within International Spotlight Heritage Student Contest 2021, submitted by the Politehnica University of Timișoara, Romania and represented by Silviu Vert & Marius Tătaru during the ceremony. The initiative belongs to the Politehnica University of Timișoara and was organized within the project "Spotlight Heritage Timișoara 2021 - Fabric - Worlds beyond Destinies", financed in 2021 by the Project Center of the Municipality of Timișoara, and the partners of the competition were Aalborg University from Denmark and Università di Modena it's Reggio Emilia in Italy.
The winning applications contain a virtual tour of the Roman Catholic Church "The Sacred Heart of Jesus" in Balcescu Square (historic Elisabeth neighborhood) and the Millennium Roman Catholic Church in Trajan Square (Historic Fabric neighborhood) in a 3D virtual space with 360 images, old and new pictures, audio elements, as well as information about the history and architecture of the buildings, the art objects inside them (paintings, stained glass windows, organs inside the churches), but also about the historical characters who left their mark in the construction, design and development of Timisoara buildings. All of these elements are integrated into an interactive and unique virtual reality application through which the user can explore churches through digital storytelling artifacts in virtual reality.
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