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It is this context that XR4Heritage comes in. Its objective is to use the whole range of these new technologies to bring the past back to life, to allow us to revisit it so as to discover or understand this history better and fully make sense of it all. Accordingly, the \u2018XR\u2019 of the event\u2019s title should be read slightly differently to the acronym for mixed reality it usually stands for, as G\u00e9raldine Bueken<\/strong>, its organiser, explains. \u2018When it came to finding a name for our event, one thing became clear to us: nowadays, when you say \u2018digital,\u2019 you think of \u2018internet sites\u2019 and these types of technology based on the web. In the context of XR4Heritage we wanted to take it a step further. That is the reason we chose this name. The expression \u2018XR\u2019 has the advantage of being short and of being a portmanteau word. And \u2018XR\u2019 here signifies \u2018Extended Reality,\u2019 in other words \u2018extended worlds,\u2019 in the sense of experiences and perceptions made possible thanks to all the new tools we are using.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let us begin with a succinct explanatory listing of the technologies we are concerned with here; first of all, there is virtual reality (VR)<\/strong>, which requires the wearing of a headset which covers the eyes. Once you have got started, it offers you a 360\u00b0 visual experience in real time. It enables you to live in a world invented entirely from scratch, but which at the same time cuts you off from actual reality and your surroundings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Augmented reality (AR)<\/strong>, for its part, lets you remain in the real, but while \u2018improving\u2019 it. This can be achieved by means of a smartphone, which will film the environment around you and add to it virtual constituents which will \u2018augment\u2019 it. Handy, but at times less immersive than VR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Between the two there is mixed reality (XR)<\/strong>, which is visualised by means of a virtual reality headset equipped with cameras which allow the user to see the real world, but adds on top of it a layer of very elaborate 3D content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These technologies mean that their users can be offered phygital experiences<\/strong> (a combination of the words \u2018physical\u2019 and \u2018digital\u2019) which blend in situ experiences with remote ones, allowing significant engagement and heightened immersion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, we also talk about artificial intelligences<\/strong>, capable of automating complex procedures, but also of developing creative works, and which consequently allow the producers of digital experiences to save valuable time regarding certain processes, and to devote these hours gained to other aspects of their projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Having incredible tools is all well and good, provided you understand how they may useful to us. On this subject, any project aiming to develop an immersive experience, as XR4Heritage intends to, first and foremost deserves to be fully thought through, explains Delphine Jenart, Project Manager at<\/strong> Technocit\u00e9<\/a>. \u2018The aim is to respond to the question, \u201chow are we going to reengage the target audiences when nowadays there is such a profusion of leisure activities, so many sources of entertainment being offered to everybody?\u201d We need to totally understand that, now these tools are gradually reaching maturity, we must focus on how to use and combine them to meet the goals we have set ourselves!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n And succeeding in doing so will effectively involve the combining of these different technologies: \u2018the process is to use mixtures of different emerging technologies which we will reemploy, retransform; there already exist formulas to do so in the methodology and in the production pipelines. We will for example work on projects using iconography, mood boards and tools already employed in other industries and combine them with new tech. But these combinations will be different each time depending on the forms, the narration or the themes which are explored,\u2019 explains Julien Abril<\/strong>, the president and co-founder of the French studio Graphics eMotion<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That is the case for most of the projects he runs with his teams in offering immersive multimedia experiences. One of the most recent is MCH \u2014 Queens of Egypt<\/a>, presented by the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau. It offers visitors multimedia screenings which transform the exhibition\u2019s rooms into immersive and dynamic spaces which transport them 3,500 years back in time, to meet the women of power who shaped the destiny of one of the most important and ancient civilisations in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\nA short glossary for emerging technologies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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New technologies, all well and good \u2013 knowing how to combine them, even better!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n