Diapositiva 1

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Aida Otaola Barbeito aotaola_at_virtualware.es
Skype aida.otaola
Enhancing Cultural Tourism Experiences with
Virtual Reality Technology
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• Company Mission provide customized solutions
  based on Virtual Reality (VR) technology in order
  to achieve their specific promotional,
  communicative and visualization needs in an
  innovative way.
• Company Vision To spread the use of the VR
  technology
• Values Encouragement to fully understand the
  project in order to provide de best solution

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Committed to Quality and Innovation

• Virtualware keeps a great demand in quality of
  all its services and products as working
  philosophy, and that is why it has the Quality
  Certificate ISO 9001 2000 since its
  establishment. This concern with details in all
  its procedures has contributed to obtain the
  Platinum European Seal of Excellence in
  Marketing Innovation awarded by the European
  Multimedia Forum.

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VIRTUAL REALITY (VR)TECHNOLOGY

• Virtual reality (VR) technology provides an
  immersive, interactive, user-centered experience
  in which the user handle and interacts with real
  and simulated objects in a realistic synthetic
  environment.
• Information, Communication and Commerce Platform
  that increasingly is becoming a routine for
  business, academic and government use
• Augmented Reality a live direct or indirect view
  of a physical real-world environment whose
  elements are merged with, or augmented by virtual
  computer-generated imagery, creating a mixed
  reality

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AREAS OF INTEREST

• Main Areas we have been focused on
• Real State Urban Planning
• Commercial uses, Presentation tools

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AREAS OF INTEREST

• Areas we are currently mainly focused on
• Tourism Promotion
• Virtual Tours
• Tourism Fairs
• Cultural Heritage Reconstructions
• Archaeological sites
• Monuments
• Museums and Interpretation centers

www.virtual-caves.com
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Some videos captured from the real-time
applications
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AREAS OF INTEREST

• We are expanding the technology to
• E-Health
• Psychology Treatment
• Neuropsychology Diagnosis
• Serious games for health
• Training Learning
• Serious games for professional training
• Simulators
• Rehabilitation ( Motion Capture)

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PROJECTMetaverse1 ITEA2 project

• Global standards among real and virtual worlds
• The Metaverse1 project will provide a
  standardized global framework enabling the
  interoperability between Virtual worlds (as for
  example Second Life, World of Warcraft, IMVU,
  Active Worlds, Google Earth and many others) and
  the Real world (sensors, actuators, vision and
  rendering, social and welfare systems, banking,
  insurance, travel, real estate and many others).
• The Metaverse1 consortium, (47 partners,) is
  build from participants of large and small
  medium industry

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PROJECTBIRDS

• - The aim is to catalogue, and locate ringed
  birds using a new tracking system that involves
• Visual representation with VR technology
• GALILEO (GIS)

PROJECTLUMINICA

• - Technology intended to standardize the image
  projection in different kind of visualization
  systems
• Obtain and algorithmm that enable to adapt to a
  cylindrical screen,
• Automatic calibration system,
• Prototype development)

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CAPABILITIES

• VR technology Knowledge
• Graphic Quality
• Flexibility dealing with any kind of project
• RDi Approach
• Ad-hoc solutions
• Products designing
• Virtual Reality Hardware Design and
  Installation
• Stereoscopic Screens
• HMDs
• Motion Capture Systems

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Contact Info Aida Otaola
Barbeito aotaola_at_virtualware.es Skype
aida.otaola
Thank you !!
www.virtualware.es