HOLO×TALS

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The HOLO×TALS project aims to contribute to the dissemination, in a unique way, of the didactic material within the Grigore Cobășcescu Museum of Mineralogy and Petrography. The HOLO×TALS educational project has as its main goal the integration of interactive and immersive 3D technologies, at very low costs compared to VR technology and with a direct impact in the teaching-learning-evaluation process. Basically, the technology uses red-cyan anaglyph 3D glasses to ensure a stereoscopic 3D effect (depth effect). Basically, it turns the regular monitor into a volumetric one (hologram effect/embossed image).

Another novelty element is the fact that this technology tracks the positions of the user's head (using the web camera), in order to change the perspective of objects/3D space. The system thus renders holographic 3D images, depending on the user's viewing position. All the while, one can interact with the objects/space in various ways, using the mouse, keyboard and/or other peripherals.

Citation / More details:

Apopei A. I. (2024) - Towards Mineralogy 4.0? Atlas of 3D Rocks and Minerals: Digitally Archiving Interactive and Immersive 3D Data for Rocks and Minerals. Minerals, 14(12), 1196. DOI: 10.3390/min14121196 [download link]