Dual Reality: Merging the Real and Virtual

Lifton, Joshua; Paradiso, Joseph A.

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“…The virtual world is thus perceived as a reflection of the real one. Lifton and Paradiso (2009) chose a different approach, describing the virtual worlds as a synonym of immersive 3D environment enhanced with natural interactions between citizens and tools, allowing customizing the environment freely. They claim that the purpose of the environment should not be to copy the existing world; it should rather extract features on which human interaction is founded.…”

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Exploitation of the Virtual Worlds in Tourism and Tourism Education

Zejda

2016

Czech Journal of Tourism

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Academics perceive a great potential of virtual worlds in various areas, including tourism and education. efforts adapting the virtual worlds in practice are, however, still marginal. there is no clear definition of the virtual world.therefore the author of this article attempts to provide one. the paper also focuses on the barriers of a wider exploitation of the virtual worlds and discusses the principles that might help to increase their potential in tourism area. One of the principles -gamification -favours a wider adaptation of the virtual worlds in tourism. Applying gamification principles provides visitors with some unique experiences while serving as a powerful marketing tool for institutions. the benefits of implementing tourism education activities based on cooperative principles set in an immersive environment of the virtual worlds are depicted afterwards. finally, this paper includes successful case studies, which show advantages and drawbacks of some approaches in exploiting the virtual worlds in tourism and tourism education.

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Exploitation of the Virtual Worlds in Tourism and Tourism Education

Zejda

2016

Czech Journal of Tourism

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“…Research has found that there is feelings of 'presence' in virtual worlds [5], as well as a merging of the virtual and real, where, the virtual world and the real world, while complete in and of themselves, are both enriched by the ability to mutually reflect, influence and at times almost seem to merge into one another [13]. This blurring of the boundaries between virtual and real is due to the increasing ability of virtual environments to replicate the sensory information of the physical world causing a suspension of disbelief [14].…”

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Pilot Study: Breaking the Virtual Boundary and Forging Communities of Practice through Virtual Worlds

Jegathesan¹

2014

IJSSH

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Abstract-3D Virtual worlds are crossing and bridging boundaries between the virtual and the real, as well as creating dynamic communities across and between researchers, artists and filmmakers, among others. This paper is the result of a pilot study that points to three strands of investigation that have now been planned to be carried out over the coming two years. The first strand where preliminary questionnaire data were collected shows how positive perceptions can be formed of a physical institution after having experienced it in a virtual sense. The second strand, in which international focus groups were used, seems to indicate how communities of practice have developed within and between artists and film makers using 3D virtual worlds instead of through conventional approaches. The third strand, in which an international focus group was also used, also seems to indicate how a community of practice has developed and further shows how the use of 3D virtual technologies have allowed educators and researchers in educational institutions to increase the breadth, depth, diversity and frequency of their research collaborations as compared to periods prior to them using 3D virtual technologies. More in-depth empirical studies on all of this will follow.Index Terms-3D Art, communities of practice, machinima, second life, virtual worlds.I.

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“…The backdrop for many of the experiments is the impressive ruins of the St Andrews cathedral, while the virtual environment is a "distorted" [10] OpenSim simulation of the same location that presents a historically accurate reconstruction of the cathedral as it would have stood at the peak of its former glory [8] 1 (see figure 1). This is a large reconstruction, over 400m by 600m, of a complex multi-storey building and thus represents a challenge for a mobile device to render and consequently is a challenging platform for testing.…”

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“…The cross reality concept [6], [9] addresses the vacancy problem and describes the mixed reality situation that arises from the combination of physical reality with a complete [10] 3D virtual environment. Previous cross reality experiments focused on static locations at which the two environments were linked within closed lab surroundings [2].…”

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Mobile Cross Reality for cultural heritage

Davies

Miller

Allison

2013

2013 Digital Heritage International Congress (DigitalHeritage)

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Abstract-Widespread adoption of smartphones and tablets has enabled people to multiplex their physical reality, where they engage in face-to-face social interaction, with Web-based social networks and apps, whilst emerging 3D Web technologies hold promise for networks of parallel 3D virtual environments to emerge. Although current technologies allow this multiplexing of physical reality and 2D Web, in a situation called PolySocial Reality, the same cannot yet be achieved with 3D content. Cross Reality was proposed to address this issue; however so far it has focused on the use of fixed links between physical and virtual environments in closed lab settings, limiting investigation of the explorative and social aspects. This paper presents an architecture and implementation that addresses these shortcomings using a tablet computer and the Pangolin virtual world viewer to provide a mobile interface to a corresponding 3D virtual environment. Motivation for this project stemmed from a desire to enable students to interact with existing virtual reconstructions of cultural heritage sites in tandem with exploration of the corresponding real locations, avoiding the adverse temporal separation caused otherwise by interacting with the virtual content only within the classroom. The accuracy of GPS tracking emerged as a constraint on this style of interaction.

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Dual Reality: Merging the Real and Virtual

Cited by 52 publications

References 12 publications

Exploitation of the Virtual Worlds in Tourism and Tourism Education

Exploitation of the Virtual Worlds in Tourism and Tourism Education

Pilot Study: Breaking the Virtual Boundary and Forging Communities of Practice through Virtual Worlds

Mobile Cross Reality for cultural heritage

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