VIRTUAL HERITAGE CAIRO is the Digital and Online platform of the International Collaborative Network for Cultural-feed of Virtual Heritage (CfVH) platforms of medieval Cairo. The network focuses on the potentials of reducing technical limitations and addition of sub-grid cultural terrains to attain a degree of ‘reality’ and photorealism of culture as a measure for virtual environments; leading tow
ards the amorphous nature of history. This C.f.V.H Network supports the growing digital heritage sector in Egypt and the Middle East and organises a series of engagement activities and databases that bring together projects, specialist research institutes and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to technically-able entrepreneurs and researchers. The CfVH collaborative network will develop projects and activities that focus on undertaking creative and practice-led research on imaging cultural heritage in Virtual Heritage. It will support young researchers, entrepreneurs to engage with innovative technological industry and inform policy makers and online tourism industry on the advantages of virtual heritage. In collaboration with centres of excellence in virtual and augmented reality, architects, heritage film makers, sociologists, mathematicians and computational scientists, the network will develop a collaborative framework that envisages an inclusive understanding and appreciation of the possibilities of digital surveying, archiving and modelling of cultural as well as built heritage. The Network will advance current research on digital heritage through theoretical and methodological investigations, analysis of gaps in cultural feed of digital modelling, and finally advance the discourse through practice-led experimental virtual modelling.
