Actors in VR storytelling
This addresses the need for more engaging virtual cultural heritage experiences, though it appears incremental by building on existing VR storytelling methods.
The paper tackles the problem of enhancing user immersion and edutainment in virtual cultural heritage applications by using actors in VR storytelling, with the Baiae dry visit application demonstrating improved quality of user experience.
Virtual Reality (VR) storytelling enhances the immersion of users into virtual environments (VE). Its use in virtual cultural heritage presentations helps the revival of the genius loci (the spirit of the place) of cultural monuments. This paper aims to show that the use of actors in VR storytelling adds to the quality of user experience and improves the edutainment value of virtual cultural heritage applications. We will describe the Baiae dry visit application which takes us to a time travel in the city considered by the Roman elite as "Little Rome (Pusilla Roma)" and presently is only partially preserved under the sea.