![]() This project is the first attempt in the library to adapt objects from a museum collection for use in virtual reality. The Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences (AMHS) at the UAB Libraries preserves material related to diagnosis of diseases, therapeutic and treatment successes, struggles at the UAB Medical Center, the practitioners on campus, and those they have trained. The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Libraries have been working to build capacity in emerging areas such as three-dimensional (3D) printing and immersive reality. More information on this project is available on the Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences Virtual Exhibits website, and a short video demonstration is available on Vimeo. Our next steps in developing this project will be to add additional images from the collection to the virtual reality application, optimize parameters related to image display, and develop scripting that would allow users to dynamically select images from the collection. The current application allows only static display of the images. We successfully created a working application for the Oculus Go that displays the images stereoscopically in the headset. We scanned 3 stereoscope cards from the collection at a resolution of 1200 dots per inch, then adapted the images for use in virtual reality using Adobe Photoshop and Unity. ![]() The Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences holds in its collections a set of medical images for the stereoscope published by Dr. ![]() ![]() The purpose of this project was to explore methods for adapting images originally created for the analog stereoscope to use in contemporary virtual reality headsets. ![]()
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