Join us for a Road to HASTAC Speaker Series talk on “New Possibilities for Historical Reconstructions with Unity 3D and Azimuth” given by James Coltrain of University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Dr. Coltrain will give at talk on Friday, May 1, 10:00-11:30am in 255 Old Horticulture, and he will give a workshop on May 1, 1:00-2:30pm in 112 Old Horticulture. Registration for the workshop is strongly encouraged leadr.msu.edu/3dworkshop
This talk will focus on current issues facing the use of historical 3D reconstructions in digital humanities projects, and Azimuth 3D, a web application for displaying scenes built in the Unity 3D online game engine. Scholars using 3D content continue to face a number of challenges, including the annotation, publication, peer review, and sharing of 3D content. The Azimuth project seeks to address some of those challenges, providing an open web application that uses existing workflows to let scholars organize, annotate, and present 3D research alongside other digital humanities data sources in a shared space. The presentation will feature an early demo of the Azimuth platform, as well as examples of how new Unity features for web publishing, lighting, and materials will affect future historical reconstructions.
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