Abstract:Virtual reality (VR) may be used as an innovative educational tool. However, in order to fully exploit its potential, it is essential to achieve the effect of immersion. To more completely submerge the user in a virtual environment, it is necessary to ensure that the user's actions are directly translated into the image generated by the application, which can be achieved by means of various devices, such as tracking systems and VR headsets, as well as haptic devices. Recently, VR has become the focus of e-ente… Show more
“…In particular, the use of serious games seems to be increasingly widespread in the context of digital heritage (Mortara et.al., 2013;Ioannides et al, 2017;Luigini, 2019b;Luigini et.al., 2019) probably also for the development and diffusion of the heritage digitization process. Until now, VR-based applications have been mainly implemented using head mounted displays (HMD), which have probably contributed to reduce their circulation (Buń, et al, 2016). The associated costs may be high: although they are becoming more and more popular and affordable, so much so that they are entering the consumer electronics market in the same way as smartphones, gaming consoles or smart TVs, they are widespread devices in the advanced gamer community.…”
<p dir="ltr"><span>In recent years a growing amount of research has shown interest in studying how virtual reality (VR) could be relevant in many fields. In this respect, VR has gained consideration throughout many applications such as education. Among other aims for its use in education, serious games based on VR were used to promote heritage and make students experience either far or inaccessible scenarios. Until now, VR-based applications have been mainly implemented using head mounted displays (HMD), which actually reduced their circulation. This gap is particularly remarkable in the current Sars-CoV19 pandemic because students, being at home or being at school without sharing equipment, cannot exploit educational programs based on this technology. The current paper proposes a web-based platform on which VR applications could be accessed on any device, either desktop- or mobile-based. The serious game was initially set up on a computer with a specialized software using a HMD, while the process of turning it into a web-based platform is described so that the used methodology could be available to those, who would like to follow it. This project is probably also able to cope with the general aim of making inaccessible objects available to students and, thus, to make the application useful even beyond the current pandemic emergency.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span><br /></span></p>
“…In particular, the use of serious games seems to be increasingly widespread in the context of digital heritage (Mortara et.al., 2013;Ioannides et al, 2017;Luigini, 2019b;Luigini et.al., 2019) probably also for the development and diffusion of the heritage digitization process. Until now, VR-based applications have been mainly implemented using head mounted displays (HMD), which have probably contributed to reduce their circulation (Buń, et al, 2016). The associated costs may be high: although they are becoming more and more popular and affordable, so much so that they are entering the consumer electronics market in the same way as smartphones, gaming consoles or smart TVs, they are widespread devices in the advanced gamer community.…”
<p dir="ltr"><span>In recent years a growing amount of research has shown interest in studying how virtual reality (VR) could be relevant in many fields. In this respect, VR has gained consideration throughout many applications such as education. Among other aims for its use in education, serious games based on VR were used to promote heritage and make students experience either far or inaccessible scenarios. Until now, VR-based applications have been mainly implemented using head mounted displays (HMD), which actually reduced their circulation. This gap is particularly remarkable in the current Sars-CoV19 pandemic because students, being at home or being at school without sharing equipment, cannot exploit educational programs based on this technology. The current paper proposes a web-based platform on which VR applications could be accessed on any device, either desktop- or mobile-based. The serious game was initially set up on a computer with a specialized software using a HMD, while the process of turning it into a web-based platform is described so that the used methodology could be available to those, who would like to follow it. This project is probably also able to cope with the general aim of making inaccessible objects available to students and, thus, to make the application useful even beyond the current pandemic emergency.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span><br /></span></p>
“…Information about habits and frequency of use concerning virtual reality was requested (see Figs. 7 and 8 as an example) through the following items: how long they have owned a virtual reality viewer (5 predefined categories), Frequency of use of virtual reality (4 predefined categories of frequency), fields of use of virtual reality (7 predefined fields) and leisure genres of interest in virtual reality (14 predefined eligible genres plus the possibility of an open answer) [5], [6].Fig. 7Number of years using virtual reality distribution of the sample.Fig.…”
Taking into account that the first virtual reality viewers started to be marketed in Spain at the end of 2016 (Gadelha, 2018; Parong and Mayer, 2018; Rizzo and Koenig, 2017) [1], [2], [3], a questionnaire was designed in order to show the social and demographic profile of this first generation of users of virtual reality experiences, itemising their ages, genders, educational level, professional field and present work status. Furthermore, the participants’ habits of use, interests, attitudes, assessments about the future potential of virtual reality in a range of areas and their preferences in this area are shown through the other items of the questionnaire.A wide sample of 117 participants, who were early adopters of virtual reality viewers, was obtained posting a new thread in the virtual reality forum of the Internet website ‘Elotrolado.net’. The data were collected by means of an online questionnaire hosted at the private servers of ‘Encuestafacil.com’.The sample did not undergo any pre-treatment and the obtained data were not altered.
“…Un primer acercamiento a este potencial debe hacerse a través de los usuarios adelantados de estos primeros visores comerciales de realidad virtual, ya que ofrecen la información real de su uso cotidiano, sus intereses y el potencial psicológico que ellos perciben (Buń et al, 2017;Lin, Wang, Kuo, y Luo, 2017;Yildirim, 2017).…”
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“…La tecnología de RV actualmente es cara y está orientada en su mayor parte hacia el ocio digital y los videojuegos, por lo que el usuario actual debe tener un adecuado nivel adquisitivo y el ocio digital se encuentra entre sus intereses principales(Sánchez-Cabrero et al, 2019b). intuitiva y fácil de manejar, y en pocos años se estima que los púberes y adolescentes la utilizarán de forma habitual y cotidiana(Adams et al, 2018).El bajo coste con el que salen al mercado los accesorios necesarios para realizar una experiencia de RV está facilitando el acceso a una población con menos recursos económicos(Buń et al, 2017). La expansión que ha desplegado en las diferentes ciencias ha sorprendido sobremanera.…”
New Communication Technologies (ICT) and the Internet have changed the way in which tourism is reported and the way companies and tourist destinations work in the communication and marketing of their products. In this scenario, it is considered of interest to know how the public administration performs digital communication for the promotion of tourism in Brazil abroad. It has been observed that three official digital communication channels are used: the official website, the official social networks and the official mobile application, therefore, the use of these three digital communication channels has been analyzed through the variables of study more suitable for each one of them, allowing to establish what are their strengths and weaknesses, as well as the possibilities of improvement for each of the channels. After the analysis, generally positive results are verified on the official website and on the official social networks when communicating, addressing and interacting with the tourist consumer, against the mobile application yields more negative results, with much room for improvement.
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