xR Environment
Building a Metaverse for Research
We are creating the open ‘metaverse’ for education and research communities. We call it the CyberArchWarehouse. It is an immersive collaborative environment running inside Unreal Engine 5 allowing archaeologists, researchers and students to come together, analyze and study digitized assets from archaeological artifacts to fully simulated digital twins of natural and manmade structures. The goal of this project is to create this platform and support an online community around it that integrates all these tools together for academic study and research. As a new avenue of digital exploration we hope to attract a diverse range of people that are driven to enter the Metaverse primarily out of a curiosity and desire to learn and study the rare and amazing digital assets representing many fields of research and academia. Besides developing new xR interactive tools and experiences ourselves, we see this as an opportunity to create a platform in which modular code (C++/Blueprints) can be injected within a running pre-packaged game allowing the community to contribute to its growth as a research, analysis, and visualization platform.