Theatre is an ark, in which historical information of human activity & culture from every era and period is preserved. In the eyes of the contemporary observer, researcher or creator, the everyday costume of a previous era, becomes a historical costume. The theatrical act is a “slice” of life of the heroes who live and move on stage. In this sense the theatrical act provides the future generations with information relating to the whole spectrum of a person's life. Ones habits, education, life status, financial situation, job, interests, age, even ones beliefs and ethics and a whole lot more. The project will be structured into a steady set of activities and actions among organizations that will offer a complete set of applications. More specifically:
- Activities in order to portray historical and urban costumes (digitization, recordings, practices)
- Creation of an infrastructure (storage systems, creation of ontologies, documentation dictionaries in three languages, etc.)
- Creation of applications
- Publicity and communication activities (clothing display, offer of data documentation, virtual tour, storytelling)
- Educational activities (educational applications and programs for specialists, for adults, for children, for schools, etc.)
- Dictionary and index of costume terminology.
The project will create open ontologies for the costume/garment, its use, its materials, its way of production as an infrastructure that will be offered within and outside the partnership. The project will address and present the clothing and dress patterns of men and women during major historical periods.
This will be done in two ways:
- Incorporation of augmented reality within the theatrical act: The activity will involve pilot AR use in a short-term theatrical performance where a small number of users wearing special glasses will watch a theatrical performance with real and virtual characters.
- AR Application via mobile devices / augmented reality glasses: It concerns a special augmented reality application that will be applied in a showroom of theatrical costumes. The visitor will have the opportunity to "scan with a mobile device or via the AR headsets" exhibits using the application. Following 3D actor models or civilians (avatars) wearing the costumes will be presented to them and will tell them stories(synthetic voice) that will highlight the costumes’ historical use and cultural value.