Immercity: a curation content application in Virtual and Augmented reality

TL;DR

Immercity is a content curation platform designed for Virtual, Mixed, and Augmented Reality to facilitate technology understanding, explore new interaction techniques, and serve as a communication tool about these emerging technologies.

Contribution

It introduces a novel content curation system that acts as a testbed for AR/VR/MR research and addresses the challenge of technology communication and user understanding.

Findings

Immercity effectively supports technology watch and user engagement.

It enables testing of new interaction techniques and AI integration.

It improves communication about AR/VR/MR technologies.

Abstract

When working with emergent and appealing technologies as Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality, the issue of definitions appear very often. Indeed, our experience with various publics allows us to notice that technology definitions pose ambiguity and representation problems for informed as well as novice users. In this paper we present Immercity, a content curation system designed in the context of a collaboration between the University of Montpellier and CapGemi-ni, to deliver a technology watch. It is also used as a testbed for our experiences with Virtual, Mixed and Augmented reality to explore new interaction techniques and devices, artificial intelligence integration, visual affordances, performance , etc. But another, very interesting goal appeared: use Immercity to communicate about Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality by using them as a support.