
VAARHeT
Partnering with our XR colleagues at XR Ireland, we are currently working on “VAARHeT”: Voice-activated AR Heritage Tours, a sub-project of the EU Horizon initiative VOXReality. Running from 2024 to summer 2025, the project aims to test-drive VOXReality’s language-based AI technologies in the challenging environment of open-air museums.
2024 – present

As creative technology partners, we are teaming up for the duration of this project with VOXReality participants XRIreland, and Āraišu ezerpils Archaeological park in Latvia. XYZ Technical Art Services co-wrote the funding applications for VAARHeT’s €200k budget and are providing UX research and user testing, XR design, 3D capture and modelling, as well as acting as product owner to support the project’s overall management and communication overhead.
We are proud to be able to explore the use of immersive technologies in the domain of open-air cultural heritage sites.
VAARHeT will consist of three use case applications of the VOXReality AI-based voice-activated interaction toolkit: An AR welcome avatar for museum visitors, a CG site augmentation providing educational content to visitors on-site, and a realtime voice-activated translation tool that will assist with live guided tours and craft demonstrations.

