If you have ever attended one of the events where I explain what Web 2.0 is and introduce Web 3.0, you will already know what Web 2.0 is. Augmented RealityIt is a layer of information that we can see over reality, and that is visible through our mobile phone or through special glasses that serve as a screen.
The use of this type of technology for cultural promotion offers enormous possibilities: from simply showing additional information about a resource printed on the image of that resource, to showing this same resource in other conditions of conservation (for example, showing what the ruins we are seeing were really like).
The current stage of development of this technology is still incipient, but there are already countless applications that work using augmented reality. In my previous post I posted a presentation entitled Culture 2.0 – From web 1.0 to 3.0 in which he showed screenshots of some of these applications that are already working.
What I wanted to show today through this article is how this technology is going to evolve shortly.
The video I have embedded below these lines shows how we will use the Augmented reality applied to Cultural Tourism, at some time (“some time” corresponds to an interval that goes from the next 2 years to the next 5, but in any case, not beyond… so it is not Science Fiction, and at the developer level they are working to make it a reality as soon as possible).
Rows – Cultural Heritage Technology District Spot (2010) from soryn on Vimeo.
Watch in the video how a control interface is used that only we can see (through our glasses), see how with the glasses on we can see information related to the cultural resource, and also see how we can see the reconstructed cultural resource (generated in 3D by specialists) and located exactly on its original location.
This is a tremendous advance in the field of both property management and tourism! The possibilities are endless.
Note: the video has reached my hands thanks to the kindness of Toni Rufo, from CanalViatges.cat
