{"id":2897,"date":"2009-08-20T07:26:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T11:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2897"},"modified":"2009-08-20T11:22:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T15:22:40","slug":"augumented-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2897","title":{"rendered":"Augmented Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to enrich tourists&#8217; appreciation of historical sites, the <a href=\"http:\/\/itacitus.org\/\">iTACITUS<\/a> (Intelligent Tourism and Cultural Information through Ubiquitous Services*) project is using augmented reality to create a virtual time machine.  Tourists can snap a picture of a site, upload it to a central server, and have instant access to cultural and historical information about the location.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[Tourists] can look at a historic site and, by taking a photo or viewing it through the camera on their mobile device, be able to access much more information about it,&#8221; explains Luke Speller, a senior researcher at BMT in the United Kingdom who oversaw development of the technology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are even able to visualize, in real time, how it looked at different stages in history,&#8221; he adds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The technology can also be used to create &#8220;smart itineraries,&#8221; choosing efficient routes to sites that match a particular tourist&#8217;s interest.<\/p>\n<p>I like the idea, as Discoblog put it, of being able to say, &#8220;Look Kids, Big Ben in 1890!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/08\/090812104219.htm\">Link<\/a> <i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/\">Discoblog<\/a>)<\/i><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n*Sometimes I just want to find the people who come up with these tortuously backformed acronyms and pat them on the head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to enrich tourists&#8217; appreciation of historical sites, the iTACITUS (Intelligent Tourism and Cultural Information through Ubiquitous Services*) project is using augmented reality to create a virtual time machine. Tourists can snap a picture of a site, upload it to a central server, and have instant access to cultural and historical information about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2897"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2912,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2897\/revisions\/2912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}