Model-Driven Generation of Collaborative Virtual Environments for Cultural Heritage

Collaborative Virtual Environments are experiencing a large interest in cultural heritage field mostly due to the strong opportunity given by novel augmented reality applications. There are already several examples of collabor- ative augmented visit to museums or historical sites. Anyway the traditional and static approach to computer graphics is very limiting because it often requires the development of a Virtual Environment for every new application. In this paper, we propose a technique for model-driven generation of mixed reality virtual environments, where every modification in contents, visit path and in interactions with the physical surrounding environment don't require a great re-coding effort, enabling fast deployment of collaborative virtual envi- ronments for cultural explorations only providing new contents and a small set of parameters.