Excerpt of post originally published on the Carleton College Humanities Center Blog 10/31/2024

This past summer I joined the Virtual Viking Longship Project, which is a collaborative initiative between Carleton College and Grinnell College, overseen by Austin Mason, David Neville, and Tim Arner. The project mainly focuses on creating an immersive virtual reality experience that can allow users to interact with a historical replica of a Viking Longship along with various other artifacts amongst the ship. 

My role as a subject matter expert consisted of researching and creating annotations for various components of the longship. This process required me to jump head first into…