Spatial sound information/cues may enhance the sense of immersiveness in virtual story telling. However, their role within complex, loosely-structured narratives is little understood. This paper describes a virtual heritage project that aims to convey a factual story using interactive virtual environments. Sound was added to the existing project in an effort to enhance the virtual experience. T...

The paper will discuss the problematic approach of ancient landscape reconstruction, stressing the importance of data and information sharing through the web. Thanks to new possibilities offered by Open Source approach and, in specific, by some tools, such as Virtual Terrain and OpenSceneGraaph, it’s now possible to construct a web-based shared system, allowing users and experts to interact dyn...

EN) The paper documents the creation in 2004 of real-world stereographic panoramas at the UNESCO world heritage listed site Angkor, in Cambodia. The project builds upon the history of the panorama as a medium of virtual travel that has existed from the eighteenth century. The significance of the current project is the way in which real-world (as opposed to computer generated) stereographic pano...

Virtual Heritage Caches are a new instrument for disseminating information about heritage sites in a non formal way. Educational concepts for world heritage sites and cultural heritage already exist in museums (exhibition) and on site (signage, smartphone apps). Often they are closed systems with little intersection and interaction between them. Heritage Caches aim to combine their target audie...

This paper describes a novel approach to satisfy the needs of museum’s website visitors with a unique experience that cannot be reproduced in the museum itself. We aim at providing a continuous and lasting experience, without the emphasis of a single, final result a process we call digital strolling. The view supports this process by displaying results as a path on which the user strolls. To en...

We investigate the concept of the heritage store, that is, the locations that lies at the heart of a brand's identity and history. Based on store observations and interviews with managers and sales personnel in the luxury industry, we analyze the characteristics of heritage stores and their role in the management of heritage brands. We show how managers sacralize a store's heritage to nurture t...

In this paper, we propose various levels of non-photorealistic rendering(NPR) scheme for virtual heritage. The different levels of rendering are simple feature level, semantic level and imaginative level. At the simple feature level, simple facts or features are represented. Semantics generated from relations between features and/or environmental context are represented at the semantic level of...