Osama Elrawi

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About Osama Elrawi

Working in practice, teaching, and research since 1981. Prepare and conduct lectures and seminars to undergraduate and graduate students. Advise students with respect to academic performance. Osama Elrawi is the founder and director of Advanced VR Applications -AVRA, based in Singapore. AVRA is established upon Research and Development in the field of Digital Heritage. Recently and for the past fifteen years working on Knowledge Cube. It is an application software to serve as a Virtual Musepedia of Islamic Civilization -VMIC- that brings together the experience of museums and encyclopaedias in an integrated immersive virtual environment. With Musepedia, users visualize integrated information and interact simultaneously with the seen content in an immersive environment that moves human sensation from the level of seeking data to the level of vision - subjectively and objectively-in one real time operation. It is a complete virtual addressing for the development of Islamic Architecture and Civilization through its different dynasties and locations within interactive virtual reconstructions. Knowledge Cube forms a VR visualization and a VR content visualization and management system. Novelty For the first time this application succeeded in developing a 3Dimensional VR Graphical User Interface for users with an immersive environment. Users are completely interactive with the available selections tools that serves users within this platform application.