13/10/2026
🏛️ Documenting the Old City of Nablus with VR, 3D scanning and AI
From 6 to 8 October, An-Najah National University hosted the first technical training workshop of the FORWARD project: “Digital Documentation, AI and Immersive Storytelling for Urban Resilience” 🇪🇺
Twelve participants, mostly architectural engineering students, worked in groups on campus. Dr. Ramzi Hassan (VR Lab, NMBU) designed and delivered the training online, while Prof. Allam Mousa facilitated on site and Dr. Zahraa Zawawi opened the workshop.
📸 Day 1 – Reality capture
Scanning campus buildings with the XGRIDS PortalCam (AI-powered 3D Gaussian Splatting) and the Polycam app.
🥽 Day 2 – Immersive storytelling
Recording 360° photos and videos, building simple virtual tours and exploring them in VR headsets.
🤖 Day 3 – AI and heritage
AI-assisted historical reconstruction, and why documented evidence must stay separate from speculation. The day included guest talks by architect Naseer Arafat on the Old City of Nablus, Abdulrahman Alkhateeb on telling Palestine’s stories with AI, and Paolo Tosolini on capturing Gaussian Splatting models.
https://forward-project.eu/training-on-digital-documentation-virtual-reality-and-ai-for-urban-heritage/
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