A Service for Supporting Digital and Immersive Cultural Experiences
This addresses the problem of enhancing tourist experiences at cultural heritage sites in Italy, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing digital twin and navigation technologies.
The researchers tackled the problem of poor visitor experience at cultural heritage sites due to difficulties in locating content, discovering information, and navigating, by developing a Digital Object Space Management service that creates a digital twin with 3D visualization to support navigation and localization, resulting in an immersive cultural experience.
Cultural heritage sites in Italy typically attract a large number of tourists every year. However, the lack of support for i) locating contents of interest; ii) discovering information on specific contents; and iii) ease of navigation within the heritage site; hinders the overall experience of the visitor. To this end, in this work, we present a Digital Object Space Management service developed as a part of the VASARI project. The service generates a digital twin (with 3D visualization) of a given cultural heritage site and further provides support for navigation and localization, thereby providing an immersive cultural experience to the visitor.