Enhancing Cultural Tourism experiences with Augmented Reality Technologies

This paper describes the development of an interactive visualization system based on Augmented Reality Technologies and the integration into a tourist application. The basic idea is the combination of the commonly known concept of tourist binoculars with Augmented Reality. By means of Augmented Reality, the real scene is enhanced by multimedia personalized interactive information to increase the tourist experience of the user, who can retrieve this information by a user-friendly interface.