An interactive visualization of the past using a situated simulation approach

Abstract

This paper describes aspects of the development of an interactive installation for visualizing a 3D reconstruction of a historical church chapel in Kolding, Denmark. We focus on three aspects inherent to a mobile Augmented Reality development context; 1) A procedure for combating gyroscope drift on handheld devices, 2) achieving realistic lighting computation on a mobile platform at interactive frame-rates and 3) an approach to relocation within this applications situated location without position tracking. We present a solution to each of these three aspects. The development is targeted a specific application, but the presented solutions should be relevant to researchers and developers facing similar issues in other contexts. We furthermore present initial findings from everyday usage by visitors at the museum, and explore how these findings can be useful in connection with novel technology for facilitating information transfer to a museum audience. The installation is in active commercial use and is currently logging further user interactions via in-application logging for future investigations in line with this project.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fused Twins: A Review of Access to Digital Twins In Situ in Smart Cities

“…We summarise ongoing and future research that is already covering a wide variety of topics (see Table 6). Some of the research explicitly mentions the DT approach or a Situated Analytics approach but often simply uses the available technology to demonstrate that their problem can be addressed [428,430,431], implicitly developing a DT and applying Situated Analytics. [18] 2009 * -History [431] 2013 * --City Information (concept) [433] 2014 * * * * * Shopping [434] 2015 * * -IoT device interaction [425] 2016 -* City Information [435] 2016 * * -Shopping [436] 2018 * * - Smart Campus [437] 2018 Evacuation [438] 2018 * ---Medicine [439] 2018 --Facility Management [440] 2018 -Rehabilitation [441] 2019 * -IoT device visualisation [426] 2019 ---Seat Selection [442] 2020 * * -Equipment Maintenance [443] 2020 * --In situ visualisation [101] 2020 * * * Education [444] 2020 * Training & Assistance [445] 2020 * * -* Firefighting [430] 2021 ---General [17] 2021 * IoT device interaction [364] 2021 -General [100] 2022 * Note: * Partially implemented or insufficient information.…”

Museums, Artefacts and Cultural Heritage Sites

“…Reconstructing buildings as digital extensions to physical ruins and remains on cultural heritage sites by means of augmented reality (AR) has been experimented with for several decades. The earliest implementations were based on customized hardware and software solutions (Vlahakis et al, 2001), while over the past decade we have witnessed increased use of off-the-shelf hardware, primarily smartphones and tablets (Liestøl 2009;Madsen and Madsen 2013), but also smartglasses (Hammady et al, 2019). For the Gokstad case we used the situated simulation (Sitsim) AR platform, a type of Indirect Augmented Reality solution (Wither et al, 2011), which has been in development since 2008 (Liestøl et al, 2011).…”

Story and storage – narrative theory as a tool for creativity in augmented reality storytelling

“…The affinity between storytelling and augmented reality has been acknowledged and tested for quite some time now, particularly in museums (Bimber et al 2003) and on location at cultural heritage sites or in museums (Vlahakis et al 2001). Early implementations were based on customized solutions, while over the past decade we have seen increased use of off-the-shelf hardware, primarily smartphones and tablets (Liestøl 2009, Madsen & Madsen 2013.…”