Paestum Bourse brings antiquity to life with ArcheoVirtual

One of the prime attractions of the XVI Mediterranean Bourse of Archaeological Tourism in Paestum from November 14-17 will be ArcheoVirtual, enabling visitors to experience the past through cutting-edge technology.

Since 2006, ArcheoVirtual has been the largest exhibition in Europe focusing on recent experiments in virtual and robotic reality applied to cultural heritage. It is held in collaboration with the most prestigious research network in Europe for virtual museums, V-Must, and coordinated by Sofia Pescarin from the Italian National Research Centre (CNR)'s Institute for Technology Applied to Cultural Heritage.

The thousands of visitors, who at every edition of the Bourse interact with the original virtual productions, will be catapulted into the age of antiquity through virtual 'time travel'.

The ArcheoVirtual gallery has applications of high emotional value that ''immerse'' the visitor in the past, as well digital art that has received international awards and advance peaks at experimental technology that will enter our lives only in the next few decades - such as applications controlled by body movements or brain activity sensors.