Envisioning Ambiances of the Past

Abstract

Outdoor museums of archaeological excavations function as sites of both scientific research and public display. Often, long-term archaeological research means postponing the preparation of the site for visitors. This paper focuses on digital tools for the representation of architectural reconstructions, i.e. possibilities for representing a range of hypotheses regarding the past ambiances of the ancient city. It proposes an augmented immersive revisit of the cultural heritage through mobile devices. Based on mobile phones’ current technical capacities, which enables rendering of 3D content combined with camera input, we developed the proposed mobile AR application for mobile Android devices. TeosAR offers a real-time, in-situ 3D depiction and visualization of architectural artifacts of the ancient city implementing model-based tracking methods.

Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe) & 23rd Conference of the Iberoamerican Society Digital Graphics [Volume 1]

“…This paper focuses on gamification of heritage through the architectural reconstructions, i.e., the possibilities for using gamification for teaching heritage through representing various hypotheses regarding the reality of an ancient city (Varinlioglu and Kasali, 2018). The initial proposal is for a game entitled TeosGO, a treasure hunt game of immersive revisit of the cultural heritage through mobile devices.…”

“…The initial proposal is for a game entitled TeosGO, a treasure hunt game of immersive revisit of the cultural heritage through mobile devices. Based on current technologies, which enable rendering of 3D content through the camera input, we developed a mobile AR application for mobile Android devices (Varinlioglu and Halici, 2019). A single imagebased tracking approach is not capable of recognising a 3D object from different viewpoints.…”