Description: Centrica gives people the chance to live outstanding edutainment experiences everywhere, from immersive&interactive exhibitions to full digital experiences. Combining professional skills, experience, certified know-how, proprietary technologies and creativity, Centrica has the competences to enhance cultural heritage through digital technologies and support museums and creative companies. Pioneer in high-res digitization – Centrica have digitised more than one thousand works of art in Uffizi Galleries till GigaPixel resolution, since 1999 Centrica is able to offer the best solutions and entire process to valorise every representation of art whenever a complex handling of visual elements is required. With the innovative startup spinoff VirtuItaly (www.virtuitaly.com), founded in July 2015 with the objective to valorise Italian culture and creativity through immersive& interactive digital exhibitions, Centrica is exploiting its products through a leading edge solution for education, tourism and entertainment, able to engage visitors as never before. In last three years we have brought Renaissance Experience in Leipzig in Germany and Shenzhen in China, see video https://vimeo.com/349119365. These are the first examples of this new edutainment format making the visiting experience really unforgettable, in the future available also as AR/VR apps.ArtCentrica EdTech solution brings together the entire artistic heritage of the Uffizi Gallery in very high resolution images, up to 10 GigaPixel, and also includes selected artworks from the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. ArtCentrica is a web based cloud application suitable for any interactive whiteboard, thanks to Centrica’s multi-resolution&concepts technology. You can visualise in intimate detail over 1150 works of art. You can compare them, measure them, discover correlations between a detail of one artwork and other works/details, and use the over 20 lessons in the application, as shown in https://vimeo.com/398468109.
Industry: Software
Website: http://www.centrica.it
Company size: 1-10 employees
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Headquarter: Florence
Ownership: Private company
Founded year: 1999
Skillset: digital imaging, internet imaging, knowledge engine, multimedia and app development, mobile app, cloud platform, big data, EdTech, and ontologies
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Location: Florence, IT