An interdisciplinary, collaborative effort between Grinnell College, Carleton College, The Viking Museum Haithabu, and The Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, this project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Digital Humanities Advancement Grant program, explores and tests strategies for integrating undergraduate student learning and labor in the development of long-term Digital Humanities (DH) research projects. Combining the strengths of our project partners with the affordances of virtual reality (VR) hardware, game engine software, and 3D modeling software, the project aims to create an immersive VR experience for visualizing the social and cultural roles of a Viking Age longship by forming a DH community of inquiry and practice that cultivates deep competencies in spatial computing within the context of a liberal arts education.

You can learn more about the project and view a walkthrough video of an early prototype experience on YouTube.

Links

• All project code and documentation is available open access through our Github organization
• Grinnell College Immersive Experiences Lab
• Digital Humanities @ Carleton College

Built With

• Unity
• XR Interaction Toolkit
• Blender

Acknowledgments

• This project is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (Award HAA-290378-23).
• This project was funded by the Grinnell College Innovation Fund.
• This project has received support from the Carleton College Trustee Humanities Endowed Student Research Fund