Spotlights
May 20, 2020
World heritage sites now accessible to everyone
Cyark teamed up with ICOMOS and Google Art & Culture to preserve five world heritage sites, with help from RealityScan.
Non-profit organization CyArk has teamed up with ICOMOS and Google Art & Culture, and worked with site managers across the world, to create 3D documentation of five UNESCO sites which are affected by climate change.
Wind, rising sea levels, increasing temperatures—these all affect our cultural heritage sites, hence the importance of preserving these sites is rising as well. CyArk used RealityScan to document these sites and gave in-depth workshops to teach local communities on how the data are captured and processed in the software. Together with the data, they have also released tutorials on how to process them within RealityScan.
From Rapa Nui in the South Pacific to the Bangladesh river delta—Google Arts & Culture's Heritage on the Edge article tells the story of five UNESCO World Heritage sites and their struggle to withstand erosion, climate change, and other environmental factors.
Three resulting data sets of of UNESCO sites—Bagerhat in Bangladesh, Chan Chan in Peru, and Kilwa Kisiwani in Tanzania—have been released on Open Heritage 3D so anyone can access and work with the source data.
Anyone who wishes to work with RealityScan can download the software and use the licensed data set. Hence, people can learn and teach photogrammetry and get access to various inputs such as laser scans, drone images, and ground images.
Links to licensed datasets: "We are very excited to offer pre-licensed access to Open Heritage data for [RealityScan] users," says John Ristevski, CEO and Chairman of CyArk. "We utilize [RealityScan] internally for processing our 3D heritage data, and we are excited to see what the community can create."
Moreover, people can freely create new outputs for cultural heritage and generate new ideas and solutions to support sites in their fight against climate change.
Wind, rising sea levels, increasing temperatures—these all affect our cultural heritage sites, hence the importance of preserving these sites is rising as well. CyArk used RealityScan to document these sites and gave in-depth workshops to teach local communities on how the data are captured and processed in the software. Together with the data, they have also released tutorials on how to process them within RealityScan.
From Rapa Nui in the South Pacific to the Bangladesh river delta—Google Arts & Culture's Heritage on the Edge article tells the story of five UNESCO World Heritage sites and their struggle to withstand erosion, climate change, and other environmental factors.
Three resulting data sets of of UNESCO sites—Bagerhat in Bangladesh, Chan Chan in Peru, and Kilwa Kisiwani in Tanzania—have been released on Open Heritage 3D so anyone can access and work with the source data.
Anyone who wishes to work with RealityScan can download the software and use the licensed data set. Hence, people can learn and teach photogrammetry and get access to various inputs such as laser scans, drone images, and ground images.
Links to licensed datasets: "We are very excited to offer pre-licensed access to Open Heritage data for [RealityScan] users," says John Ristevski, CEO and Chairman of CyArk. "We utilize [RealityScan] internally for processing our 3D heritage data, and we are excited to see what the community can create."
Moreover, people can freely create new outputs for cultural heritage and generate new ideas and solutions to support sites in their fight against climate change.
Note: At the time of this article's publication, RealityScan was branded as Reality Capture.
Download RealityScan
RealityScan is free to use for students, educators, and individuals and companies with an annual gross revenue below $1 million USD.Above the $1M threshold? Visit our licensing page to find out about your purchasing options.
Download the launcher
Before you can install and run RealityScan, you’ll need to download and install the Epic Games launcher.
Install Epic Games Launcher
Once downloaded and installed, open the launcher and create or log in to your Epic Games account.
Having trouble? Get support, or restart your Epic Games launcher download in Step 1.
Install RealityScan
Once logged in, navigate to the RealityScan tab in the Unreal Engine section and click the install button to download the most recent version.