Overview

The global scope of CREATE is to develop a mixed reality framework that will enable highly interactive real-time construction and manipulation of realistic, virtual worlds based on real data sources. This framework will be tested and applied to cultural heritage content in an educational context, as well as to the design and review of architectural/urban planning settings.

The CREATE project:

• Develops design methodologies to determine user requirements, based on a human-centered, “constructivist” approach to working and learning;
• Adapts, develops, and combines novel content creation, display, haptic and audio technologies based on the requirements thus defined, to enable realism with interactivity, specifically for immersive VR platforms

Providing the user with more natural means to interact with the environment, to perform actions such as grabbing literally virtual objects (like a haptic interface system) will allow them to get immediately into the process of learning without having to learn how to use the system and the interaction modules. Moreover the use of this haptic interface within immersive virtual environments, combining 3D-display and 3D-sound simulation should allow the user to focus immediately on the tasks assigned.