Scottish FA<\/a> by the German Football Association for the first meeting of the two national teams in 1929, and football legend\u2019s Billy Steel\u2019s boots from the 1940s.\n<\/p>\n\n Visitors to the Scottish Football Museum will experience the artefacts using headsets deployed in the [un]box Virtual Reality kiosk developed by the University\u2019s Museums in the Metaverse team, which has previously exhibited at Glasgow Science Centre, St Giles Cathedral, and the National Portrait Gallery in London.\n<\/p>\n
\n Using advanced photogrammetry and digital artistry, the technology creates museum-quality 3D models that can be experienced in a suite of specially created virtual environments.\n<\/p>\n
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Demi Boyd curator of Hampden Museum with Calumn Livingston , Hampden Visitor Services Officer with Craighead Primary School pupils in Milton of Campsie Annabell Gelston (10) (left) and Roma Stevenson (9) (Image: Martin Shields)\n<\/p>\n
\n The exciting gallery of objects has been created in collaboration with curators at the Scottish Football Museum and will be sited in the museum’s \u2018Hall of Fame\u2019 at Scotland’s National Stadium.\n<\/p>\n
\n The experience, which is open to the public from this week, has been developed with support from the University of Glasgow, and proceeds over the summer will benefit Alzheimer’s UK.\n<\/p>\n
\n Professor Pauline Mackay, Co-Director of RIG and a Co-Founder of Infinite Muse, said: \u201cWe\u2019re incredibly proud that our \u2018Wonder\u2019 technology will enable awe-inspiring new interactions with the nation\u2019s football heritage as the men\u2019s team return to the world stage. The story of Scottish football is extraordinary and deserves to be known far and wide. We\u2019re delighted that we\u2019ve been able to support the custodians of this heritage to tell the story in exciting new ways.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Neal Ross, Chief Executive at the Scottish Football Museum, said: \u201cThis has been an incredible project to work on with the team at the University of Glasgow, and it will enable us to really take the treasures of the Museum to the world. As World Cup fever sweeps the nation and the whole world, we are so excited to be part of this groundbreaking initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018The Treasures of Scottish Football: A Virtual Reality Experience\u2019 is an immersive exhibition of football objects from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[61,60,80,210,211,212],"class_list":["post-489192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}