Category: Mapping Virtual Practice

As a trip We visited Sheffield to meet with Howard of “Friends of Wardsend Cemeter” who was are guide and contact. it took as 2 hours each way to get there and we manged to get most things done in our 4 hour time period. Visiting both the cemetery and the museum.

it was a nice but overcast day. so i made a passing comment on how it would have been the perfect weather for photo scanning the environment. Kamila then let me know she had a ipad pro with Li-dar and let me install poly cam. I made 2 models with the app 1 of the slope of the bank and path where i thought the painting was painted. also one of the grave commemorating the man who died playing football.

these could potentially be used as reference or as elements for are project.

I often neglect to remember that those involved in the cemetery have no prior Esperance or understanding of technologies involving and included in VR.

Wardsend Cemetery

For Our Virtual mapping project, We will work with Wardsend Cemetery in creating a digital installation to promote Wardsend Cemetery.

The Sheffield site has a rich history. It was the burial grounds for st. Philips Church is also one of the few cemeteries that have a train line running through it that was used to transport steel to and from the local steelworks. A portion of the graves are for soldiers fallen during the world wars as well as Sheffield locals. one story includes a man who was killed during a football match, whilst chasing the ball he hoped a wall that had a ditch on the other side.

Ideas for how we could create a VR Esperance.
creating a virtual tour and archive with photo scanning similar to how corridor digital did it with photogrammetry and web VR platform Mozila hubs.

In our meeting with a Wardsend representative they showed us paintings for the Sheffield museum . ____This brought the idea of bringing the painting to life similar to how other before have done it (as seen bellow) immersing the users inside a 3D world recreated using material projection methods along with sound and this also references back to our last units where we discussed Wanderer above the Sea of Fog in an exercise.

They have since got back and said they love the painting idea.

These examples above and bellow of work that recreates a painting for VR take creative liberty in extending the environment past the frame.

https://betterthanlife.io/projects/a_bigger_splash/