Bernard Frischer
Digital Archeologist, Professor, Founder
Technology, 3D Modeling
Bloomington, IN, USA
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Bernard Frischer is a digital archeologist who writes about virtual heritage, Classics, and the survival of the Classical world. Through his labs and with the help of many technical and scholarly collaborators, Frischer has overseen many 3D modeling projects. In 2016, Frischer founded Flyover Zone in order to take virtual heritage from the university laboratory to a larger international public.
Long Bio: http://frischer.org/.
What Is FLYOVER ZONE?
Flyover Zone is an EdTech company with the mission of virtualizing and democratizing world heritage sites and monuments. Virtualization means 3D modeling of the current condition of the monument. It also means digital restoration of any damage that the monument may have suffered since it was first created. Democratization means two things: we use the Internet to stream the sites and monuments to our users. This makes it possible for those who for whatever reason (time or economic constraints, disability, etc.) cannot travel to the monuments to at least see and experience their digital twin. Moreover, the price of doing so is a tiny fraction of what an actual trip would cost. Democratization also means that your virtual guide is one of the world’s leading experts such as the director of an excavation or a research institute. This is not normally the kind of highly qualified specialist with whom you can take a tour in the real world.
We fulfill our mission through our two streaming services.
Our Virtual Museum has hundreds of 3D models of classical sculpture in museums and private collections. Each object in the museum is accompanied by metadata giving you information comparable to what you typically find on a museum label. We also include links to vetted scholarly information available elsewhere on the Internet.
Yorescape® is a word we coined based on “yore,” as in “days of yore,” and “-scape,” as in landscape. Yorescape is the name of our streaming platform for virtual tours taking you across space to see ruins in countries like Egypt, Greece, and Italy as well as back in time to see the ruins spring to life in computer reconstructions. teachers, or members of the general public.
