An intelligent rendering framework for adaptive mixed reality applications on Canada's historic heritage sites

根据加拿大统计局2010年的一份报告，遗产和文化旅游是旅游业增长最快的部门，2007年全国收入超过80亿美元。文化和自然遗产地、博物馆和主题公园对增值景点有着巨大的需求，其形式是使用信息、通信和多媒体技术的特定地点体验产品。 为了响应旅游部门的紧急呼吁，该项目将在混合现实中研究和开发新的方法和技术，并将其应用于历史和自然遗产的虚拟体验。具体来说，我们将专注于开发一个智能渲染框架的3D自适应混合现实应用程序在加拿大的历史遗产，创造一种新的沉浸式混合现实电影体验：戏剧性的，互动的，电影场景，嵌入并缩放到现有的位置，同步体验多个用户从不同的角度现场通过移动的手机和平板电脑。虚拟角色、物体、建筑物和景观被缩放和定向，使得当用户在共享空间中移动时，虚拟元素的感知模仿自然景象。通过现场耳机和扬声器提供的3D声音可以增强身临其境的体验质量。这个体验产品的名字是AWE（增强世界体验），唤起了在历史上伟大时刻被丢弃的感觉。已与多伦多市签订意向书，在约克堡纪念1812年战争二百周年期间演示原型体验。

Heritage and cultural tourism, according to a 2010 Statistics Canada report, is the fastest growing sector in tourism, totaling over 8 billion dollars in receipts nationally in 2007. There is a huge demand from cultural and natural heritage sites, museums and theme parks for value-added attractions in the form of location-specific experience products that use information, communication and multimedia technologies. In response to the urgent call from the tourism sector, this project will conduct research and development of new methodology and techniques in mixed reality and apply them to virtual experience of historic and natural heritage sites. Specifically, we will focus on developing an intelligent rendering framework for 3D adaptive mixed reality applications on Canada's historic heritage sites, creating a new kind of immersive mixed reality motion picture experience: dramatic, interactive, cinematic scenes, embedded within and scaled to an existing location, are synchronously experienced by multiple users from various viewpoints onsite through mobile phones and tablet computers. Virtual characters, objects, buildings and landscapes are scaled and oriented such that as users move through a shared space, the perception of virtual elements mimics natural sight. The immersive quality of the experience may be enhanced by 3D sound delivered through headphones and speakers on site. The name given for this experience product is AWE (Augmented World Experience), an evocation of what it feels like to be dropped in the middle of great moments in history. A Letter of Intent has been entered into with the City of Toronto to demo a prototype experience at Fort York during its bicentennial commemoration of the War of 1812.