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A business in Tokyo, Japan, that hires out workers to perform maintenance upon a grave. Maintenance tasks include cleaning, tidying, weeding, arranging flowers and lighting incense. The worker records the maintenance using using a 360-degree camera,…

A service that provides mobile apps for cemeteries. Through the app, individual grave locations are plotted on a map, and each grave can have an associated online memorial page with media about the deceased person's life. Cemetery navigation and…

A prototype wearable electronic system designed to facilitate a self-guided audio tour of Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. The system comprises a backpack with a tablet computer and personal GPS tracking system, a set of headphones and a…

A prototype soundscape installation for a heritage site in the Italian Alps, comprising the remains of a fortified camp and trenches from World War I, at which soldiers who died in the war had been buried. To use the soundscape, a visitor to the site…

A service that creates explorable virtual recreations of a funeral service using 360 degree photography (otherwise known as VR photography). Marketed towards US military veterans and their families, for those who are unable to attend a veteran's…

A virtual reality environment that recreates the cemetery for German World War II soldiers near Salla, Finland. The real cemetery is in the border zone between Finland and Russia and requires a special permit to access. The VR environment was…

A video panel designed to be installed in a gravestone, which plays video tributes to the deceased person. The system is powered by a battery charged from a solar panel that covers the screen when it is not in use.

An audiovisual display system embedded in a gravestone and operated by a remote control device. The patent for the system describes it as follows: "A tombstone for communicating audio and visual data related to the deceased from the tombstone to a…

An artwork based around a mobile app that is designed to be used at a cemetery. The cemetery in question changes as the artwork must be set up for a particular site. Vanitas presents the user with a combination of text, images and audio recordings…

A design concept for a burial ground at Arnos Vale Cemetery in Bristol, England, which won the Arnos Vale Future Cemetery Design Competition in 2016. The concept takes the form of a forest path in which a network of "anaerobic memorial vessels" are…