A Service for Supporting Digital and Immersive Cultural Experiences

TL;DR

This paper presents a Digital Object Space Management service that creates 3D digital twins of cultural heritage sites to enhance visitor experience through immersive navigation and content discovery.

Contribution

It introduces a novel service that combines digital twin technology with immersive visualization to improve cultural site exploration.

Findings

Enhanced visitor engagement through 3D visualization

Improved navigation and content localization support

Successful implementation within the VASARI project

Abstract

Cultural heritage sites in Italy typically attract a large number of tourists every year. However, the lack of support for i) locating contents of interest; ii) discovering information on specific contents; and iii) ease of navigation within the heritage site; hinders the overall experience of the visitor. To this end, in this work, we present a Digital Object Space Management service developed as a part of the VASARI project. The service generates a digital twin (with 3D visualization) of a given cultural heritage site and further provides support for navigation and localization, thereby providing an immersive cultural experience to the visitor.