Virtual Heritage

The multidisciplinary study of cultural heritage using virtual technologies. Virtual Heritage is useful for preserving and sharing cultural heritage in virtual environments.

What is virtual heritage?

- Quote: "Virtual heritage or cultural heritage and technology is the body of works dealing with information and communication technologies and their application to cultural heritage, such as virtual archaeology."

What is the goal of virtual heritage?

- Quote: "It aims to restore ancient cultures as real (virtual) environments where users can immerse."

How does virtual heritage differ from cultural heritage?

- Quote: "Virtual heritage and cultural heritage have independent meanings."

How is cultural heritage defined?

- Quote: "Cultural heritage refers to sites, monuments, buildings and objects 'with historical, aesthetic, archaeological, scientific, ethnological or anthropological value'."

What does virtual heritage focus on within a technological domain?

- Quote: "Virtual heritage refers to instances of these within a technological domain, usually involving computer visualization of artifacts or virtual reality environments."