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Available and Implementable Technologies for Virtual Tourism: A Prototypal Station Project

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2013 (ICCSA 2013)

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Authors report here their experience and knowledge on the state-of-the-art in relation to a prototypal station for virtual tourism, able to relate geomatics references to cultural content and to offer a whole experience, involving users also from the sensory point of view. That’s nowadays a specific purpose of new technologies applied to cultural heritage.

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    Valeria Minucciani

  2. DIST - Dipartimento Interateneo di Scienze, Progetto e Politiche del Territorio, Università e Politecnico di Torino, V. Leonardo da Vinci, 44, 10095, Grugliasco, TO, Italy

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Minucciani, V., Garnero, G. (2013). Available and Implementable Technologies for Virtual Tourism: A Prototypal Station Project. In: Murgante, B., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2013. ICCSA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7974. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39649-6_14

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