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Immersive reality technologies have been widely utilized in the area of cultural heritage, also known as Virtual Heritage. We present a tangible Virtual Reality (VR) interaction demo that allows users to freely walk in the physical space while engaging ...

Research on seismic simulations has focused mainly on methodologies specially tailored to civil engineering. However, we have detected a lack in the area of interactive cultural heritage applications, where speed and plausibility are the main ...

This article attempts to understand how present Virtual Reality (VR) environments can contribute to enhancing the communication of cultural heritage by providing an experience of the past that is acceptable for the younger generation and how museums and ...

Virtual reality offers a potential solution to enable visiting inaccessible cultural heritage sites. We present the design, prototyping and evaluation (n = 6) of a virtual visit to a historic graveyard. The Salla World War II graveyard is located in an ...

The culture of Aboriginal Australians is unique and diverse, but, unfortunately, it is under threat of extinction. This is the culture that does not rely on written records, as knowledge is predominantly being shared in the form of oral tales and ...

This paper presents a brief overview of the design and evaluation process of a Virtual Heritage (VH) experience for children in the context of Refugi 307, a bomb shelter built during the Spanish Civil War. The shelter currently belongs to the History ...

In recent decade, a wave of apprehension swept across the Pearl of Oriental with regards to the disappearance of high value tangible and intangible heritages due to urban renewal and redevelopment. The flourish of computer science and engineering, ...

We present the initial design stage of a Virtual Heritage experience for a bomb shelter built during the Spanish Civil War, namely Refugi 307. The shelter currently belongs to the History Museum of Barcelona which provides guided tours through the ...

This paper propose a simple and user friendly method for aligning an Indirect Augmented Reality application with the real world. Augmented Reality is often considered an innovative platform for conveying cultural heritage, as well as for many other ...

User interfaces that leverages vivid computer graphics and virtual reality technologies provide effective means for exploring and inspecting cultural artifacts. Such virtual inspection systems help experience and disseminate cultural heritage. For such ...

We have experienced rapid development in Augmented Reality (AR) systems and platforms in the world of cultural heritage, namely in cultural settings and historical museums. However, we still face a range of challenges to design an AR system that meets ...

While technology and digital tools to support virtual heritage is rapidly improving, there is still a lack of research on the suitability of user interaction for cultural heritage reconstruction and finding means to support sense of place in virtual ...

One of the main purposes of virtual heritage (VH) is to disseminate the cultural and historic knowledge to end-users. However, in many cases VH projects are motivated towards demonstrating the technical artistry and the power of new technology to attain ...

In this paper we show our conceptual approach of how easy it can be to develop web apps that provide real-time 3D support, behave like native apps and run platform independently on smartphones, tablets (e.g., iPad), and on desktop computers. This ...

The aim of this paper is to present the overview of cultural learning in virtual heritage. In the past, works done on virtual heritage were mostly focused on replicating and visualizing heritage objects for presentation using virtual reality. However, ...

This paper deals with a main theoretical research question which asks how to best represent Byzantine art in virtual environments. The two options of photo realistic and non photo realistic rendering are researched in the background of topics related to ...

The focus of Virtual Heritage in education usually is on its use as a tool for teaching and dissemination. However, production of Virtual Heritage applications and demonstrations typically involve people from many different fields of expertise. This ...

This paper presents a multi-user virtual heritage application that allows children to experience and learn the hunting strategies depicted in a cave painting from 6000 B.C. The application is based on a multi-touch vertical screen that allows for full-...

We present the iterative development and initial evaluation of a multi-modal platform for interacting with precious small artifacts from the Gold Museum in Bogota. By using a commercial haptic interface, loud speakers, and stereo displays, one can allow ...

This paper examines an extensive user evaluation survey undertaken during an installation of PLACE-Hampi, a custom-built augmented stereoscopic panoramic interactive cultural heritage installation. The evaluation draws on the responses of 284 users of ...