Virtual reality software nominated for Europrix award
A computer system recreating 1972's 'Bloody Sunday' has been nominated for the Europrix award. The Northern Ireland Centre for Learning resources (NICLR) designed and developed the system to help the Saville enquiry into the events of Bloody Sunday. The team believe their system to be the first of its kind. It uses interactive touch screen technology which legal representatives or members of the public can move through the streets of a virtual reality Bogside in January 1972. Europrix MulitmediaArt is a pan-European contest to highlight best-practise in multimedia products and applications. It is a Member States' initiative formed by Austria in 1998 and supported by the European Commission. As well as recognising European excellence in the new field of multimedia, the event aims to create a trading platform for high quality multimedia products representing the variety of European cultures, traditions, languages and visions. The NICLR will be showcased along with other nominated products at the Europrix awards ceremony next year. The UK Department of Trade and Industry wants to encourage those wishing to follow the NICLR's example to contact UKISHELP - ' a 'one-stop' advice and support service to promote UK participation in European Information Society programmes.'