Virtual reality (VR) can introduce new perspectives and methods to existing research fields, such as the humanities. We present a VR research tool for facilitating the study of so-called ‘Written Artefacts’ (WA). The tool was created as part of an interdisciplinary research project and displays the WA in their spatial context: the ancient theatre of Miletus. We closely collaborated with researchers from the humanities and implemented different features for visualizing content, filtering information, and changing perspectives on the research data in VR. Our demo gives users access to the immersive research environment and allows them to explore the virtual theatre of Miletus and its WA.

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The research for this paper was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 'Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures', project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.