Understanding Virtual Reality Applications in Digital Heritage through Teos

Virtual Worlds and Augmented Reality in Cultural Heritage Applications

Mixed Realities (Milgram & Kishino 1994) and their concept of cyber-real space interplay invoke such interactive digital narratives that promote new patterns of understanding. However, the "narrative” part, which refers to a set of events happening during a certain period of time and providing aesthetic, dramaturgical and emotional elements, objects and attitudes (Nandi & Marichal 2000, Tamura ...

The applications of virtual reality technology in medical groups teaching

Introduction: Virtual reality is a new method for trainingdifferent medical groups. Based on this technology, professionalsand students of various medical sciences can determine their levelof competence for medical treatment before any performance onthe patient. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify theapplications of virtual reality technology for training the medicalgroups.Methods:...

Photographic Virtual Reality and Architectural Heritage

Multimedia applications concerning Cultural Heritage represent a great opportunity to spread the knowledge about the history, culture and tourist environment of a specific site. But this kind of applications requires a large effort in term of costs in order to guarantee the high quality needed. This requirement has also a remarkable impact on the technology used to realize the multimedia conten...

Improving Virtual Reality Applications in CAD through Semantics

—In this article we propose an architecture for the inclusion and exploitation of semantic aspects in a CAD environment. Our schema focuses on the enhancement and improvement of a commercial (general purpose) CAD system on its Virtual Reality (VR) capabilities. There is a need in combining CAD and semantics in the new generation of computer assisted engineering systems. Usually semantic aspects...

Physically Walking in Digital Spaces - A Virtual Reality Installation for Exploration of Historical Heritage