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Google Partners With CyArk to 3D Scan the World’s Historical Sites, Provide Open Access to Data

Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2018

You can check out a number of CyArks scans in VR through the MasterWorks app for Oculus Rift and Gear VR. CyArk founder Ben Kacyra was inspired to preserve the world’s heritage sites digitally when the Taliban destroyed a number of 1,500 year-old Buddhist statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan in 2001.

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Temple Run: CyArk Taps GPUs to Capture Visual Records of World Heritage Sites

NVidia VR

JULY 31, 2018

When the Taliban blew up two 1,700-year-old statues of the Buddha in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, in 2001, preservationists around the world were shocked, perhaps none more so than Ben Kacyra. A software developer who’d just sold his industrial mapping company, Kacyra wanted to do something good with his technology skills. For Now, More Data.

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Google Partners With CyArk to 3D Scan the World’s Historical Sites, Provide Open Access to Data

Temple Run: CyArk Taps GPUs to Capture Visual Records of World Heritage Sites

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