Virtual Reality for Cultural Heritage Applications

ISBN-13: 9783639145915 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 92 str.

Meehae Song

Opis

Many heritage and cultural sites all over the worldare being destroyed or lost to urbanization,pollution, neglect, and even tourism and therecognition for the issues of preservation,restoration, and interpretation of cultural heritagesites has increased tremendously over the recentyears. Virtual Reality (VR) technology provides foran important educational tool by offering immersiveand interactive qualities where the user canvirtually enter and explore the digitalreconstructions in real-time while providing a learning-by-doing scenario through innovativeinteraction techniques. This book presents a culturalheritage application utilizing VR technology torecreate a fully immersive 3D environment of acomplex heritage structurespecific to Singapore. A Chinese calligraphy brush isintroduced as the interface to the VR environment fornavigating and executing commands. A Virtual TourGuide also guides the visitors around the heritagesite. By presenting a real-time framework forcreating digital heritage applications, this bookshould be especially useful for VR professionals aswell as historians and heritage experts interested inheritage preservation and restoration.