{"id":28,"date":"2020-11-04T16:52:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T16:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insidecrane.utoronto.ca\/?p=28"},"modified":"2020-11-04T16:53:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T16:53:47","slug":"crane-ucf-and-datch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidecrane.utoronto.ca\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"CRANE, UCF and DATCH!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Professor Scott Branting, and the University of Central Florida, are CRANE\u2019s newest partners, and they\u2019re bringing a lot of exciting projects with them. Professor Branting has spent many years adapting tools like remote sensing and 3D modeling for use in archaeology, and he and UCF are in the middle of sending those tools into space. Thanks to what he calls \u201ca very robust partnership\u201d with organizations like NASA, they\u2019re developing mini-satellites that will monitor and photograph cultural heritage sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To begin with, though, the CRANE partnership will focus on DATCH (Documenting and Triaging Cultural Heritage), a project to equip archaeologists with \u201caugmented reality\u201d headsets, which will give them all the information they need without ever taking their eyes off a site. \u201cYou might be able to eventually look at a tree through your goggles, and have an AI that tells you what sort of tree it is,\u201d Professor Branting says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Lynn Welton (Physics, U of T) tries DATCH as Dr. Branting looks on. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Unlike virtual reality, augmented reality headsets let users multi-task; they can see the real world and project information and images on top of it. For now, they mostly display pre-existing content like images and statistics, but someday, Professor Branting says, a user could \u201cdetail and draw in what parts are still standing, and what parts have been destroyed,\u201d all without having to leave the scene or use another device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Augmented reality could also allow archaeologists to communicate with experts remotely. Professor Branting wants to make it possible to let anyone, anywhere, \u201cwork through your headset and give you information or ideas about what you\u2019re looking at.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Branting is hopeful that CRANE, which he considers a pioneer in \u201cexperimenting and exploring what can be done with these technologies,\u201d will help make this a reality sooner. He predicts that users will be able to use a headset to see the history of any site they\u2019re looking at.\u201cIt could bring up an entire plan of what something looked like before it had been blown up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are thrilled that Professor Branting and UCF have joined CRANE, and we look forward to a long and productive research partnership!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written by Jaime Weinman (jaimeweinman.com<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Scott Branting, and the University of Central Florida, are CRANE\u2019s newest partners, and they\u2019re bringing a lot of exciting projects with them. Professor Branting has spent many years adapting tools like remote sensing and 3D modeling for use in archaeology, and he and UCF are in the middle of sending those tools into space. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insidecrane.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insidecrane.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insidecrane.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insidecrane.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insidecrane.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/insidecrane.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/insidecrane.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insidecrane.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insidecrane.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insidecrane.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insidecrane.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}