Luostarinmäkiseikkailun avoin testaus 1.6.-18.6.
Luostarinmäki Adventure is a tablet application that takes a visitor of the Luostarinmäki Handicrafts Museum in the middle of the 1850’s daily life in Turku. The adventure uses augmented reality technologies to bring people from old times virtually into the streets and courtyards of the museum. During the first weeks of June visitors of the museum […]
On June 11&12 we host the ARea15 conference, the #1 AR event of 2015 in Finland
ARea is the most exciting augmented reality conference in Finland! In 2015 the fourth consecutive event will be held in Turku and hosted by us. The theme this year is augmented reality in culture & travel. The two day event consist of a workshop, seminar and an expo. See more at the event site at areaevent.fi!
MIRACLE Kick-Off Seminar
The research on use of mixed reality technologies in culture and learning environments that started in our Futuristic History project continues now in the larger scale project MIRACLE – Mixed Reality Applications for Culture and Learning Applications. The project’s first seminar was held on January 16. The event took place in Turku at the St […]
MARIN2 kick-off
The MARIN2 project was officially launched in a kick-off seminar held on the M/S Baltic Princess on the 12th and the 13th of January. Tekes participated in funding the project, and the total budget for the project settled at 1 988 000 €. The project will continue until November 2016. The main goal of the project is to research ways to integrate plans […]
Futuristic History results seminar in Helsinki
The Futuristic History project organized a public seminar at The National Museum of Finland in Helsinki. Audience of approximately 100 academic, business, culture and museum oriented people were given feature talks by the project partners and presentations by the researchers about the findings and pilot applications developed during the project. The event was opened by […]
Futuristic History at NODEM 2014
NODEM 2014, the annual Nordic digital heritage conference is underway in Warsaw, Poland. The event started on Monday December 1 with a day of keynotes. Today in turn the focus was on academic presentations and among them our Futuristic History project presented a talk about creating the Luostarinmäki Adventure game. On the stage were Tuomas […]
Invitation: Futuristic History results seminar
The Futuristic History project welcomes you to a public seminar on the use of mixed reality technologies in museum and culture environments! The event takes place on Decemeber 9 at the auditorium of The National Museum of Finland in Helsinki. The seminar features talks by the project’s partners and presentations by researchers about the findings […]
Mixed Reality at the NaviGate fare
The Mixed Reality projects at Department of Future Technologies takes part in the NaviGate maritime industry fare in Turku. The fare takes place at the The Turku Fair and Congress Center during 19 and 20 November. Come and meet us at the University of Turku booth C61! On display are demos from projects MARIN, Futuristic History […]
Business models of AR applications discussed at workshop by Futuristic History
The Futuristic History project held a workshop day focused on business models of AR application. Represented were many of the regional culture and museum organizations as well as for example the National Board of Antiquities. The aim of the workshop was to discuss the potential that mixed reality applications can offer different related parties. For […]
MARIN public seminar
The MARIN project organizes a public seminar on the 28th of May. The theme of the day is mixed reality applications within the marine industry. The seminar starts at 9.00 am with talks from the project partners. An expo on the tools, technologies and results starts at 10 and lasts for an hour. The event […]
