"Once Upon a Time": A Proof of Concept Augmented Reality Collaborative Mobile Application to Discover City Heritage

Author

Bellini, Alberto ; Luddi, Cinzia ; Naldini, Simone ; Ghetti, Cristina ; Bellini, Emanuele ; Bergamin, Giovanni

Author_Institution

MATHEMA srl, Florence, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

2-5 Dec. 2013

Firstpage

358

Lastpage

363

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an innovative mobile application to discover and valorize city heritage and its identity considering the city as a outdoors virtual museum. The application, namely "Once upon a Time" Magic GLASS, aims to exploit digital images of city glimpse preserved at National Central Library of Florence to provide an immersive experience to the users, that through the smart devices can look at the city as it was. This project paves the way for a new class of applications able of exploiting long term preserved digital objects.

Keywords

augmented reality; mobile computing; museums; Magic GLASS; National Central Library of Florence; Once upon a Time; augmented reality collaborative mobile application; city heritage discovery; digital images; digital objects preservation; outdoors virtual museum; smart devices; Cities and towns; Communities; Cultural differences; Glass; Global communication; Libraries; Visualization; augmented reality; digital preservation; glimpse of interest; outdoors virtual museum;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS), 2013 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SITIS.2013.65

Filename

6727214