Archiverse: an Approach for Immersive Cultural Heritage

TL;DR

This paper discusses how VR and XR technologies are revolutionizing cultural heritage preservation and visualization, enabling immersive experiences of historical sites, while addressing challenges in interdisciplinary collaboration and public dissemination.

Contribution

It presents an approach for creating immersive cultural heritage experiences using VR and XR, highlighting technological methods and addressing collaboration challenges.

Findings

VR/XR enable detailed, immersive reconstructions of cultural sites.

These technologies facilitate new perspectives and educational opportunities.

Challenges include interdisciplinary cooperation and public access.

Abstract

Digital technologies and tools have transformed the way we can study cultural heritage and the way we can recreate it digitally. Techniques such as laser scanning, photogrammetry, and a variety of Mixed Reality solutions have enabled researchers to examine cultural objects and artifacts more precisely and from new perspectives. In this part of the panel, we explore how Virtual Reality (VR) and eXtended Reality (XR) can serve as tools to recreate and visualize the remains of historical cultural heritage and experience it in simulations of its original complexity, which means immersive and interactive. Visualization of material culture exemplified by archaeological sites and architecture can be particularly useful when only ruins or archaeological remains survive. However, these advancements also bring significant challenges, especially in the area of transdisciplinary cooperation between specialists from many, often distant, fields, and the dissemination of virtual immersive environments among both professionals and the general public.