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CoolTour: VR and AR Authoring Tool to Create Cultural Experiences

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Part of the book series: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies ((SIST,volume 55))

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This paper presents a platform to create complex VR and AR cultural experiences in an easy way. Each experience is composed by steps that contain a virtual scene and that are connected among them via end-user interactions. The platform presents three pillars that allow the author to configure the experience: the authoring tool, the experiences server and a mobile app. A use case consisting in a treasure hunt in a city has been developed to validate the platform.

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  1. Vicomtech-IK4, Paseo Mikeletegi 57, 2009, Donostia/San Sebastián, Spain

    Nagore Barrena, Andrés Navarro, Sara García & David Oyarzun

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  1. Nagore Barrena
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Correspondence to Nagore Barrena , Andrés Navarro , Sara García or David Oyarzun .

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  1. Institute for High-Perfor Computing Netw, National Research Council of Italy, Naples, Italy

    Giuseppe De Pietro

  2. Institute for High-Perfo Computing Netwo, National Research Council of Italy, Naples, Italy

    Luigi Gallo

  3. KES International, Shoreham-by-sea, United Kingdom

    Robert J. Howlett

  4. University of Canberra, Canberra, South Australia, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Barrena, N., Navarro, A., García, S., Oyarzun, D. (2016). CoolTour: VR and AR Authoring Tool to Create Cultural Experiences. In: Pietro, G., Gallo, L., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services 2016. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 55. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39345-2_42

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