Developing an eXtended Reality platform for Immersive and Interactive Experiences for Cultural Heritage: Serralves Museum and Coa Archeologic Park

Abstract

Digital Heritage and Digital Humanities focus on distinct typologies of heritage: tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage (CH) objects and their preservation, education, and research versus the application of digital technologies to support research in the humanities. Both allow scholars to go beyond textual sources to integrate digital tools into the humanistic study. This project aims at supporting a new way of experiencing CH in the Serralves Museum and Coa Archeologic Park through more involving and culturally-qualified user experience. The main goal is to understand the potential of eXtended Reality within CH while also proposing the idea of developing a digital experience platform: an authoring tool based on an engine with core experiences functions that can be applied for developing multiple experiences for CH. This platform will contribute to new approaches, technologies, and tools for creating, processing, and delivering immersive and interactive content for engaging and meaningful experiences in these specific CH environments.

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