What is ARCO?
ARCO is a research project, funded by the European Union, aimed at developing technology for museums to create 3D Virtual Exhibitions on the Web. Virtual exhibitions are created by digitising museum artefacts, which are then transformed into Virtual Representations, which can be X3D or VRML models or scenes. These virtual representations together with associated Media Objects described with XML complete the virtual exhibition. A museum focused Database and Content Management Application, together with X-VRML technology allows museums to easily create these virtual exhibitions. X-VRML defines the virtual exhibition layout and allows dynamic updates of the virtual exhibition by simply changing the database contents. An ARCO prototype was demonstrated at COMDEX Fall 2002 in Las Vegas.
