The Time Maps project and website were promoted during the 19th EAA (European Association of Archeologists) Annual Meeting (http://www.eaa2013.cz) which took place on 4-8 September in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
A poster (“The Maps of Time project: A 4D virtual public archaeology”, authors Dragoş Gheorghiu and Livia Stefan) was presented during the “Archaeology meets modern art: artists’ approaches to prehistoric data” session, organized by Estella Weiss-Krejci, Edeltraud Aspöck and Mark Hall, on September 6.
The poster presented an interactive software application, called 4darcheo, for smart phones with Android system and using the Augmented Reality platform Junaio. The working principle of the application is the recognition of reference images, which leads to the display of a content related to the images. In this case, the content was represented by video sequences with 3D reconstructions and re-enactments of two technologies (textiles and metal), suggesting an exploration in space and time corresponding to the prehistoric and Roman periods characteristic to the place studied, the village of Vădastra.
QR codes required to rapidly launch the AR application, and reference images and POIs (Points of Interest) were placed on the map of the village, representing geographic locations corresponding to the two historical periods mentioned. The application was presented to the conference participants, by scanning the QR codes and the reference images for each of the chronological levels.
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