Time Travel to the Past of Bosnia and Herzegovina through Virtual and Augmented Reality

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) has a very picturesque past. Founded in 11th century, it always been crossroads of faiths civilizations. Extended Reality (XR) technologies can finally take us to time travel into this history, enable experience past events meet historical characters. In paper, we overview the latest applications developed that use Virtual (VR) video, Augmented (AR) for interactive digital storytelling about BH history. “Nine dissidents” is first VR documentary, tackling still tricky subject dissidents Socialist Yugoslavia, artists writers falsely accused, persecuted forbidden. “Virtual Museum Old Crafts” aims present preserve crafts intangible heritage through Reality. “Battle on Neretva VR” recreating famous WWII battle offering users comrade Tito, commander Yugoslav Liberation Army. “Sarajevo 5D” shows cultural monuments from Sarajevo do not exist anymore physical form using Through user studies, measure immersion edutainment these show potential XR presentation preservation heritage.