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Nowadays, virtual reconstructions of the ruined castles, fortress, temples or other kind of turistic objectives gain popularity among internet surfers due to the new technologies.

I just want to bring to your attention to the 2 projects: Eternal Egypt project, developed by egyptian government and IBM, and LifePlus, an EU’s project that digitally reconstructed Pompei.

Eternal Egypt project brings to the light more than 5000 years of Egyptian civilization. Selections of Egypt’s treasures, cultural heritage, peoples & history were combined into an interactive multimedia experience through the latest interactive technologies such as virtual reality and high-resolution imagery.

LifePlus project brings to our days the life in the ancient Pompei. This kind of project is an e-visitor attraction; a computer-assisted archive and documentation system has been developed especially for it. Exploring the digitalized Pompei, the visitors can meet 3D characters or virtual agents and interact with them.

Speaking of 3D characters we can see that they are replacing the real ones and step by step virtual agents will guide the surfers through the specialized web portals and virtual reconstructions.

Searching through my favorites blogs, I’ve discovered webcams.travel (via), an online tool developed in Google Maps interface, that allows to locate and to watch web cams all around the world. This web 2.0 tool is based on the users generated content; users must have the rights to unveil the web cams location or to be their owners.

Unfortunately, no bookmark for Romania web cams could be found … maybe … because of the copyrights, national security etc.

Recently, searching on the Internet, I’ve discovered a study regarding the utility of mobile technology in tourism activities. Barry Brown and Matthew Chalmers, the authors of the study, put together the old (paper maps and guides) and new technologies (GPS, PDA, digital cameras and, why not, Internet kiosks [via]) tourist are using to organize their visits/travels in different places and their importance of pre and post-visiting (through travelogues, photo albums, video recordings etc.) activities. Of course, they paid some attention to each category’s advantages and disadvantages.

The study is called Tourism and mobile technology and you can download it from here (.pdf)

Personally, I’ve discovered the utility of mobile technologies some years ago, during my trip in Ciucas Mountains, when I’ve had the opportunity to use a digital map and easily establish the course of our trip from the point we should firstly end it.

If you have a compatible mobile phone, you can download from here a mobile guide of Busteni and then, you can test the application and its usefulness.

Vă mai amintiţi de A.L.I.C.E.? Dar de agenţii virtuali, de care spuneam eu că ar putea fi folosiţi cu succesc în cadrul portalurilor de e-commerce sau e-tourism? Nimic mai simplu, soluţia vine din partea celor de la OddCast prin SitePal, un generator de caractere virtuale care … vorbesc. Prin intermediul unui astfel de caracter virtual se poate prezenta, de exemplu, carcateristicile unui produs scos la licitaţie pe unul din multele site-uri dedicate sau se poate înlocui banalul post scris pe un blog sau se poate face un ghid digital/hartă navigaţională pentru un blog/site dedicat e-tourismului şi nu numai. Utilizatorul poate alege “sex”-ul caracterului virtual, look-ul acestuia şi, bineînţeles, textul pe care trebuie să îl reproducă. Ca să vă convingeţi, încercaţi singuri să creaţi un astfel de caracter.

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