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1. The present landscape: it can be constantly and independently explored by each user.
2. An interpretative landscape: it combines the present situation with its hypothetical reconstruction (hybrid model). It is activated as the user moves from one space to another and provides interpretative hypothesis regarding the villa's latest phases too.
3. The reconstructed landscape in the Augustan period (virtual anastylosis): it is launched when the user “activates” the triangular icon of the reconstruction.
From that moment, all users will be forced to follow the related historical content provided for that specific space.
A network of information called “affordances” is directly connected with the application: it can be activated through specific icons and simplifies the understanding and learning of the contents.
Affordances also specify information about the virtual reconstruction of that specific space and its practical function, the chronology of the events, the related sources and the level of difficulty of the interpretative reconstruction. Moreover, every virtual reconstruction provides additional elements as labels, 2D and 3D images, 3D models in real-time and storytelling movies.
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present landscape / hibrid model / virtual anastylosis / affordances
After an introductive movie about the via Flamina, the four avatars start to explore the virtual space as they meet each other in the same space: a predetermined sequence allows the user to enter the different archaeological sites in an ordered and sequential way, by fostering and keeping alive the interest of the audience during the exploration.
Once the users enter the monographic level, they can move themselves into the virtual space, and they will face three different typologies of virtual reconstructions of the structures: |
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