• User Experiences in Three Approaches to a Visit to a 3D Labyrinthe of Versailles 

  Giloth, Copper; Tanant, Jonathan (IEEE, 2015)

  We have completed a prototype app on our way to a fully 3D historically accurate virtual reality reconstruction of the lost Labyrinthe of Versailles. This app currently supports a variety of devices including desktop/laptop ...

• A Fulldome Interactive Visitor Experience - A Novel Approach to Delivering Interactive Virtual Heritage Experiences to Group Audiences in Full Dome Projection Spaces, Evaluated Through Spatial Awareness and Emotional Response 

  Tredinnick, John; Richens, Paul (IEEE, 2015)

  The National Trust is experimenting with the use of portable fulldome projection spaces as a means of engaging its visitors with virtual reality reconstructions of the cultural heritage it holds. To date dome technology ...

• Leicester Castle Tells its Story: Beacon-based Mobile Interpretation for Historic Buildings 

  Vavoula, Giasemi; Tseliou, Maria-Anna; Coleman, Sally; Ffoster-Jones, Rheinallt; Long, Paul; Simpson, Esther (IEEE, 2015)

  This paper presents work-in-progress on the design and integration of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacon-based mobile interpretation in historic buildings, and the ways in which it can impact the visitor experience. The ...

• X-Top - An Interactive Exhibition for Building Experience with Mini-Components of Stone Pagoda 

  Kang, Kyung-Kyu; Lee, Jihyung; Park, Chang Joon; Kim, Jae Woo; Lee, Man Hee (IEEE, 2015)

  Stone pagodas are mysterious heritages about how to be built up and shaped stone components. X-Top is an interactive exhibition system to explore answering about the building method of a famous Korean stone pagoda. Previous ...

• Using a Gaming Software for Historical Road and Path Research 

  Vletter, Willem (IEEE, 2015)

  In this paper we present the potential of Unity, a widely available video game engine, for historical roads research. This case study makes use of roads and paths extracted from Airborne Laser Scan (ALS) data of the Leitha ...

• A Virtual Reality Platform for the 3D Representation of Seokguram Temple 

  Jinho, Park; Tufail, Muhammad; Jisoo, Kim (IEEE, 2015)

  In this paper, a virtual reality platform for the 3D representation of Seokguram Temple is developed based on the Oculus Rift 2 platform with an AirTouch interaction. Seokguram Temple is an artificial cave and the most ...

• StoryTECH 4 EVER - Storytelling TECHnologies for European Values and hERitage 

  Monaci, Sara; Morreale, Domenico; Cuniberti, Gianluca; Equizzi, Mariano; Sanna, Andrea (IEEE, 2015)

  The aim of the project is to design and develop a system, a framework and a ''cultural heritage storytelling model'' to ease the exploitation of transmedia storytelling in the promotion of cultural heritage, through the ...

• Travelling Through Space and Time in Lisbon's Religious Buildings 

  Gouveia, João; Branco, Fernando; Rodrigues, Armanda; Correia, Nuno (IEEE, 2015)

  Project Lx Conventos aims to study, in a systematic and integrated manner, the impact of the dissolution of religious orders in the dynamics of urban transformation in nineteenth century Lisbon. After the liberal revolution ...

• A MetaViewer for Sharing Multiple Media by WebGL-based Interfaces 

  Bergerot, Laurent (IEEE, 2015)

  In recent years, sharing images and videos on the Web has become common. Recently, the use of 3D models is also growing day by day, and the evolution of programming languages and libraries allow visualizing detailed 3D ...

• Development of a Low-Cost Application of Virtual Reality for the Promotion of Cultural Heritage 

  Esclapés, Javier; Tejerina, Daniel; Martín, Alejandro; Fabregat, Laia (IEEE, 2015)

  This paper shows the state of a research about cultural heritage whose main purpose is to allow the user to move virtually to any place of cultural or architectonic interest that, either for economic or accessibility ...

• New Memory Spaces for Cultural History - Digital Heritage Games in a Augmented World 

  Haake, Susanne; Müller, Wolfgang (IEEE, 2015)

  In this contribution we explore the challenges and opportunities of innovative mobile historical experiences in the domain of commemorative culture. We present two prototypes conceptualized and implemented for a mobile ...

• Digital Panorama 

  Borra, Davide (IEEE, 2015)

  In 1787 it was Robert Barker to invent the term Panorama, still used to today all over the world to determine a large view, up until 360 degrees. His show has traveled European cities and the American new frontier, letting ...

• Sarcophagus of the Spouses Installation - Intersection Across Archaeology, 3D Video Mapping and Holographic Techniques Combined with Immersive Narrative Environments and Scenography 

  Fischnaller, Franz; Guidazzoli, Antonella; Imboden, Silvano; Luca, Daniele De; Liguori, Maria Chiara; Russo, Alfonsina; Lucia, Maria Anna De; Cosentino, Rita (IEEE, 2015)

  This paper presents the Sarcophagus of the Spouses installation, an audiovisual performance and exhibit combining 3D video mapping, holographic techniques, computer graphics, high definition visualization with 3D reconstruction ...

• Virtual Museums and Audience Studies, the Case of ''Keys To Rome'' Exhibition 

  Pagano, Alfonsina; Armone, Giulia; Sanctis, Elisabetta De (IEEE, 2015)

  In this paper we present an overview of two audience studies aimed at identifying museum visitors' attitudes, behaviours and expectations. In the framework of VMUST. NET an interactive exhibition, named ''Keys To Rome'', ...

• High-Quality Point Based Rendering Using Fast Single Pass Interpolation 

  Schütz, Markus; Wimmer, Michael (IEEE, 2015)

  We present a method to improve the visual quality of point cloud renderings through a nearest-neighbor-like interpolation of points. This allows applications to render points at larger sizes in order to reduce holes, without ...

• Resolving the Conflict Between High Visual Quality and High Performance in Virtual Reality Applications Keys to Rome Project as Case Study 

  Khalil, Mohamed; Omar, Karim; Oransa, Sameh (IEEE, 2015)

  This paper aims to show how the 3D unit at the Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT) tackled the conflict between High visual quality and high performance in Virtual reality application by ...

• Innovative Systems for the Enjoyment of Pictorial Works - The Experience of Gallerie dell'Accademia Museum in Venice 

  Pantile, Davide; Frasca, Roberto; Mazzeo, Antonio; Ventrella, Matteo; Verreschi, Giovanni (IEEE, 2015)

  This paper will describe the multimedia solutions designed and developed by ETT s.p.a. ICT company for the set-up of a new wing of the Gallerie dell'Accademia Museum in Venice (Italy), reopened to the public with the ...

• The Digital ArchiMusic Patterns in Alhambra 

  Elrawi, Osama (IEEE, 2015)

  This paper is a part of an ongoing research project that is seeking to clarify the interrelationship between the architecture of the Alhambra and Andalusian music at that time. Despite that Alhambra was built long ago ...

• Environment Map Based Lighting for Reflectance Transformation Images 

  Ludwig, Michael; Meyer, Gary (IEEE, 2015)

  Environment map based lighting has proven to be an effective technique in simulations and real time rendering for adding realism and conveying complex illumination to the viewer. We present a novel algorithm for using ...

• Enabling Social Interaction in the Museum through the Social Display Environment 

  Diaz, Paloma; Bellucci, Andrea; Aedo, Ignacio (IEEE, 2015)

  Visitors of museums and cultural heritage sites are not different from other types of citizens and, hence, they are getting more and more engaged into a participatory culture that encourages them to play an active role and ...

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