Bunce Island: Through the Mirror – Epic Games’ MetaHumans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade
2023; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 21; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/14788810.2023.2208989
ISSN1740-4649
AutoresKatrina Keefer, Joseph M. Burton, Rachel L. J. Taunton, Wacera W. Muriuki,
Tópico(s)Digital Storytelling and Education
ResumoVisualizing the traumatic past is a perennial challenge, particularly for historians of the slave trade. New innovations in digital technologies may offer a transformative framework to address this problem. Epic Games and its Unreal Engine, developed for use in industries such as film and video game production, animation, architectural visualization, and virtual reality simulations, offer one potential avenue to efficiently visualize a challenging past. Epic Games's MetaHuman Creator – high-fidelity digital humans, fully rigged and able to be quickly animated with little more than an iPhone – offer another related means of viscerally recreating the past in ways which offer new insights for researchers and new tools for educators.
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