In this paper a series of reflections on the topicality of smart glasses for the tourist-cultural field are illustrated. Although this technology has received a setback in the consumer market in the past, nowadays it is back in the limelight thanks to the involvement of world leaders in fashion and social networks. The objective of this paper is to show that such wearable devices can be a resource for the dissemination and enhancement of the Cultural Heritage. This assumption forms the basis of the proj-ect proposal for an ‘augmented’ video-environment for cultural tourism, which is presented below. It is a theoretical-experimental project and proposes an approach to the augmented reality by using geolocation technologies and 3D mapping of the territory, overcoming the simple tourist approach to Cultural Heritage, perceiving, and displaying multimedia contents that enrich the real experience of the user in the artistic sense.
Drawing, Visualization and Augmented Reality of the 1791 Celebration in Naples
This paper investigates the ephemeral architecture of the eighteenth century in Naples through the literary and iconographic sources found in the volume Idee per le pubbliche feste nel ritorno in Napoli de’nostri Augusti Sovrani dalla Germania […] by Gaetano Barba (1971). The goal is an unprecedented representation, modeling and fruition project, accompanied by a graphic visualization of the places to better understand the architectural and urban space in the absence of allusive images of three–di-mensionality. Subsequently, the visual construction of the contexts on an urban and architectural scale made it possible to disseminate the compositional elements of the celebrations and the internal per-ceptions to a non–specialist public. Finally, an Augmented–Reality application prototype.