Creating virtual engagement and remote “being there” experiences
Enabling technologies are being developed and tested together with community and industry partners in the lab and field.
Theme 3
Creating virtual engagement and remote “being there” experiences
TELEPRESENCE EXPERIENCE
To effectively deliver rich user experiences that showcase Māori culture and the natural environment we are implementing and evaluating technologies enabling engagement and a remote sense of presence in multiple facets.
Based on the sense of being there in a virtual environment (spatial presence) together with someone (co-presence), the sense of being in a remote, real environment (tele-presence) together (tele-co-presence) is being researched.
A range of engagement, presence, usability, and feasibility measures are being developed and applied (self-report, observational, physiological).
Knowledge is being gained about the relationships between cultural and environmental concepts and the sense of presence in virtual and real environments for novel virtual tourism experiences without the need to physically travel.
Critical steps
Touristic telepresence experiences and interactions within large scale outdoor environments
Capturing and sharing of volumetric people representations for co-presence and engagement in cultural and touristic contexts
Touristic and cultural tele-co-presence experiences beyond the visual
