Time Travel to the Past of Bosnia and Herzegovina through Virtual and Augmented Reality
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) has a very picturesque past. Founded in 11th century, it has always been a crossroads of faiths and civilizations. Extended Reality (XR) technologies can finally take us to time travel into this history, enable us to experience past events and meet historical characters....
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| author | Selma Rizvić Dušanka Bošković Vensada Okanović Ivona Ivković Kihić Irfan Prazina Bojan Mijatović |
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| description | Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) has a very picturesque past. Founded in 11th century, it has always been a crossroads of faiths and civilizations. Extended Reality (XR) technologies can finally take us to time travel into this history, enable us to experience past events and meet historical characters. In this paper, we overview the latest applications we developed that use Virtual Reality (VR) video, Virtual and Augmented Reality (AR) for interactive digital storytelling about BH history. “Nine dissidents” is the first BH VR documentary, tackling a still tricky subject of dissidents in the Socialist Yugoslavia, artists and writers falsely accused, persecuted and still forbidden. “Virtual Museum of Old Crafts” aims to present and preserve crafts intangible heritage through Virtual Reality. “Battle on Neretva VR” is recreating a famous WWII battle offering the users to experience it and meet comrade Tito, the commander of the Yugoslav Liberation Army. “Sarajevo 5D” shows the cultural monuments from Sarajevo that do not exist anymore in physical form using Augmented Reality. Through user experience studies, we measure the user immersion and edutainment of these applications and show the potential of XR for the presentation and preservation of cultural heritage. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4858157e6b9b43b09bcf13052b350b112023-11-21T16:19:38ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172021-04-01118371110.3390/app11083711Time Travel to the Past of Bosnia and Herzegovina through Virtual and Augmented RealitySelma Rizvić0Dušanka Bošković1Vensada Okanović2Ivona Ivković Kihić3Irfan Prazina4Bojan Mijatović5Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and HerzegovinaFaculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and HerzegovinaFaculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and HerzegovinaFaculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and HerzegovinaFaculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and HerzegovinaSarajevo Film Academy, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina (BH) has a very picturesque past. Founded in 11th century, it has always been a crossroads of faiths and civilizations. Extended Reality (XR) technologies can finally take us to time travel into this history, enable us to experience past events and meet historical characters. In this paper, we overview the latest applications we developed that use Virtual Reality (VR) video, Virtual and Augmented Reality (AR) for interactive digital storytelling about BH history. “Nine dissidents” is the first BH VR documentary, tackling a still tricky subject of dissidents in the Socialist Yugoslavia, artists and writers falsely accused, persecuted and still forbidden. “Virtual Museum of Old Crafts” aims to present and preserve crafts intangible heritage through Virtual Reality. “Battle on Neretva VR” is recreating a famous WWII battle offering the users to experience it and meet comrade Tito, the commander of the Yugoslav Liberation Army. “Sarajevo 5D” shows the cultural monuments from Sarajevo that do not exist anymore in physical form using Augmented Reality. Through user experience studies, we measure the user immersion and edutainment of these applications and show the potential of XR for the presentation and preservation of cultural heritage.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/8/3711digital heritagevirtual realityaugmented realityVR videointeractive digital storytellinghyper-storytelling |
| spellingShingle | Selma Rizvić Dušanka Bošković Vensada Okanović Ivona Ivković Kihić Irfan Prazina Bojan Mijatović Time Travel to the Past of Bosnia and Herzegovina through Virtual and Augmented Reality Applied Sciences digital heritage virtual reality augmented reality VR video interactive digital storytelling hyper-storytelling |
| title | Time Travel to the Past of Bosnia and Herzegovina through Virtual and Augmented Reality |
| title_full | Time Travel to the Past of Bosnia and Herzegovina through Virtual and Augmented Reality |
| title_fullStr | Time Travel to the Past of Bosnia and Herzegovina through Virtual and Augmented Reality |
| title_full_unstemmed | Time Travel to the Past of Bosnia and Herzegovina through Virtual and Augmented Reality |
| title_short | Time Travel to the Past of Bosnia and Herzegovina through Virtual and Augmented Reality |
| title_sort | time travel to the past of bosnia and herzegovina through virtual and augmented reality |
| topic | digital heritage virtual reality augmented reality VR video interactive digital storytelling hyper-storytelling |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/8/3711 |
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