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Virtual visit of Assisi, an example of how Second Life shoud be used
Digg: Finally, an example of how Second Life shoud be used!: “Pictures and videos of the virtual visit of the fantastic Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, Italy, where a real tour guide uses her avatar to offer a complete virtual visit to New York students. This is how Second Life should be used!”. The article referenced, Virtual visit: Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi on Simone Brunozzi’s blog, describes one of the best way to use Second Life (as an educational and cultural tool). The Basilica is a perfect place to do so, since it’s perfectly reproduced from the original “real” one. See also our coverage of the opening of Assisi in Second Life in September 2007.
A virtual visit of the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, led by a professional guide who gives explanations and answers the questions of the visitor, is shown in this video clip on blip.tv (in Italian). You can also download the original, higher resolution video file.
This is an example of mature application of Second Life, with many applications to the tourism industry and the promotion of our cultural, historic and artistic heritage. This kind of highly realistic and immersive cultural experience, which had never been possible before, will permit taking art and culture closer to citizens, everywhere. A virtual visit is not yet the same thing as a visit in brickspace reality, but the gap will be more and more reduced by advances in VR technology, until VR based telepresence will be a perfectly acceptable replacement of physical presence for many applications. This is an example of how VR technology is achieving sufficient maturity for some important applications, and other killer applications to p2p (person to person), b2b (business to business) and b2c (business to consumer - this is proving the most difficult model) communication are being deployed. One thing is clear: the difference between the 3D, VR based metaverse and the 2D web lies in the social interaction between participants. This is the feature that must be exploited to design successful initiatives in the meatverse.
Posted by G.P. on 04/14/08
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Caro Giulio,
Sono appena tornato da una visita da Assisi, che dire: veramente notevole!
Fin nei particolari! Anche piuttosto leggera (il mio vecchio muletto non ha subito gravi danni!).
Ma mi chiedevo: ne vale la pena di entrare in competizione con il mondo reale?
Qui mi sono interessato al turismo su secondo life, http://piliaemmanuele.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/turismo-ondemand/
Un tema simile a quello di cui parli nel post: non sarebbe meglio provare ad offrire una esperienza che nel real world non sarà mai realizzabile?
Ovviamente parlo da profano, io sono un architetto, non un comunicatore… :)
Ci leggiamo, a presto!
Posted by
PEJA - 04/17/08
Ciao E - D’ altra parte: per me la visita del Taj Majal reale non é realizzabile in questo momento, perché non ho il tempo e ho cose di piú alta prioritá da fare con i soldi. i soldi. Quindi mi interesserebbe una visita virtuale fatta bene, con la alta fedeltá di Assisi. Dopo la visita virtuale potrei anche aumentare la prioritá che assegno alla visita del Taj Majal reale e andarci veramente, specialmente se gli operatori della visita virtuale possono offrirmi un buon package turistico. É in questo senso che il turismo VR puó permettere di stimolare l’ industria del turismo reale.
Posted by - 04/22/08
Nice visit
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notebooker - 08/10/08
