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Virtual heritage is the use of interactive computer technologies, including virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR), to record, preserve, reconstruct and present cultural heritage such as artifacts, buildings, archaeological sites and historic cities. In a 2000 article in IEEE MultiMedia, Robert Stone and Takeo Ojika defined it as "the use of computer-based interactive technologies to record, preserve or recreate artifacts, sites and actors of historic, artistic, religious and cultural significance and to deliver the results openly to a global audience in such a way as to provide formative educational experiences through electronic manipulations of time and space".[1]

The field took shape at conferences in the mid and late 1990s.[2][3] Around 2000, projects ran on personal computers, on the web and on room-sized CAVE projection displays.[1][4] Current projects combine 3D capture methods such as photogrammetry and laser scanning with presentation on head-mounted displays, smartphones, tablets and the web.[5] Common applications are virtual museums, reconstructions of ruined or lost buildings shown on site through AR, and VR visits to places that are fragile, closed or no longer exist. Well-known examples include the Rome Reborn model of ancient Rome, the CyArk archive of laser-scanned monuments, and several VR experiences of Notre-Dame de Paris released after the 2019 fire.

Reviewed 6 October 2026. Checked the definition, 1995-2001 history, Bekele et al. survey claims, all cited papers (authors, venues, DOIs), Rome Reborn, CyArk/Open Heritage, Notre-Dame, Louvre and British Museum projects, and the London Charter and Seville Principles against the cited sources. About review dates.

Definition and terminology

Stone and Ojika's definition links the recording or recreation of heritage with open delivery to a worldwide audience and with education. In the same article they wrote that VR is not "a technology destined to replace the real experience of traveling to a historical site or museum", and that projects could now draw on video game engines and 3D model libraries shared on the web.[1]

In a survey for the same 2000 special issue, Alonzo C. Addison grouped the emerging technologies into three domains: 3D documentation (from site surveys to epigraphy), 3D representation (from historic reconstruction to visualization) and 3D dissemination (from immersive networked worlds to "in situ" augmented reality).[6]

Several related terms overlap with virtual heritage:

Term Usage
Digital heritage The International Society on Virtual Systems and MultiMedia (VSMM) refers to "the field of Virtual Heritage or Digital Heritage as it is now known".[3] UNESCO uses "digital heritage" in a wider sense: its Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage, adopted on 15 October 2003, covers all "resources of human knowledge and expression" created digitally or converted into digital form, including texts, databases, images, audio, software and web pages.[7]
Virtual archaeology Defined in the Seville Principles as "the scientific discipline that seeks to research and develop ways of using computer-based visualisations for the comprehensive management of archaeological heritage".[8]
Virtual reconstruction In the Seville Principles, using a virtual model to visually recover a building or object at a given moment in the past from physical evidence, comparative inference and expert study.[8]
Virtual museum In Bekele et al.'s 2018 survey, an application that simulates a physical museum or heritage site and its tangible and intangible assets for the public.[5]

History

Origins in the 1990s

The first Virtual Heritage conference was held at the Assembly Rooms in Bath, England, on 22 November 1995. It was announced to discuss the use of computer graphics to recreate buildings that no longer exist, including Cluny Abbey and the theater at Pompeii.[2] Learning Sites, whose team took part, describes it as the first international conference dedicated to the use of virtual reality for cultural heritage.[9]

VSMM was founded in Japan in 1995 by Takeo Ojika of Gifu University. According to the society, the field of virtual heritage was launched at VSMM 1998, and the society worked with the UNESCO World Heritage Centre in the late 1990s to establish it; VSMM later helped found the DigitalHeritage congresses.[3] A 1998 SPIE paper by Scot Thrane Refsland, Ojika and Stone already described "dynamic virtual world heritage environments".[10] In 2000 IEEE MultiMedia published a special issue on virtual heritage, guest edited by Refsland, Ojika, Addison and Stone, with Addison's trends survey and Stone and Ojika's definition.[11]

Immersive and networked systems

Around 2000 several groups moved heritage reconstructions onto immersive displays. For the iGrid research demonstration at the INET 2000 conference in Yokohama, Japan, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University at Buffalo, Central Missouri State University and the Foundation of the Hellenic World (FHW) in Athens built two shared environments. "Shared Miletus" was FHW's reconstruction of the ancient city of Miletus, and "Virtual Harlem", conceived in 1998 by Bryan Carter, recreated Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance. Both ran on CAVE and ImmersaDesk systems linked over high-speed international networks, so that visitors in different cities could meet as avatars, and museum guides could join the shared world; commentary was offered in English and Japanese.[4] A 2001 paper by Athanasios Gaitatzes, Dimitrios Christopoulos and Maria Roussou called immersive VR in museums "a recent trend" and discussed the issues involved in building immersive virtual archaeology projects for the broad public at an institution of informal education.[12]

At the same 2001 VAST symposium, Addison described the Virtual Heritage Network and international media workshops held with UNESCO as examples of cross-disciplinary collaboration, and pointed to the destroyed Buddhist statues at Bamiyan, Afghanistan, in arguing that digital tools should be used to protect the world's cultural legacy.[13]

Early augmented reality

Bekele et al. date the use of AR in heritage to "as early as 2001" and the ARCHEOGUIDE project.[5] ARCHEOGUIDE (Augmented Reality-based Cultural Heritage On-site GUIDE) was an EU-funded IST project that gave site visitors a personalized electronic guide with AR reconstructions of ancient ruins, rendered in real time from the user's position and orientation. An initial prototype was evaluated by user groups at the archaeological site of Olympia, Greece.[14][15]

Consumer headsets

Bekele et al. noted in 2018 that fully immersive VR had been uncommon in heritage, partly because of the cost of CAVE installations, and expected headsets such as the Oculus Rift, Microsoft HoloLens and HTC Vive to bring fully immersive virtual museums, reconstructions and educational applications to the field.[5] On 8 and 9 August 2015 the British Museum's Samsung Digital Discovery Centre held a Virtual Reality Weekend in which more than 1,200 visitors explored a virtual Bronze Age roundhouse settlement, built by Soluis Heritage, on Samsung Gear VR headsets, Samsung Galaxy tablets and an immersive dome. The environment placed 3D scans of three objects from the collection in a reconstructed setting. An evaluation paper by Juno Rae and Lizzie Edwards describes the British Museum as one of the first museums in the world to incorporate VR technology into a learning programme.[16]

How it works

Capture

Most projects begin with 3D documentation of the site or object. Fabio Remondino's 2011 review of heritage recording covers the optical sensors and modeling methods involved, chiefly photogrammetry and 3D scanning, and their limitations, requirements and specifications.[17] Bekele et al. note that heritage VR applications are built with acquisition techniques such as photogrammetry and laser scanning.[5] Newer representations are also being tested. A 2025 ISPRS paper by Jungmin Lee and colleagues proposed a 3D Gaussian splatting framework for artifacts and reported better accuracy and visual fidelity than photogrammetry and standard 3D Gaussian splatting in its evaluations.[18]

Presentation technologies

Bekele et al. place AR, MR and VR on the reality-virtuality continuum of Paul Milgram and Fumio Kishino, and classify heritage applications by purpose into five overlapping groups, each with different technical requirements:[5]

Purpose Aim Technology notes in the survey
Education Teach the historical aspects of tangible and intangible heritage VR and MR can provide fully immersive learning; head-mounted displays and CAVEs with high-resolution displays suit tangible heritage, and tracking is needed for immersion and interaction
Exhibition enhancement Improve visits to physical museums and sites, usually through tour guidance AR and MR; VR is unsuitable because it blocks the view of the real world; see-through displays need robust tracking and fast registration
Exploration Let users, usually experts, explore historical and current views of sites to gain new knowledge Hybrid tracking, combinations of displays, collaborative and multimodal interfaces
Reconstruction Show historical views of heritage that existed only in the past or survives in part AR and MR, which can superimpose the reconstruction on its historical location
Virtual museum Present museum or site assets in digital form to the public Fully immersive VR; the authors consider large CAVEs more suitable than head-mounted displays because they hold several users at once

The survey concludes that AR is preferable for exhibition enhancement, VR for virtual museums, and MR for indoor and outdoor reconstruction.[5] It also points to the lack of standards as a barrier: the X3D format is named as the most widespread VR standard and WebGL as the main route for showing 3D scenes in ordinary browsers.[5]

Notable projects

Project Organizations First shown Technology
Rome Reborn UCLA, then the University of Virginia, later Flyover Zone 2007 (version 1.0) Real-time 3D model; Google Earth layer; VR and screen-based tours[19]
ARCHEOGUIDE EU IST consortium 2001 Mobile AR guide at Olympia[14]
Shared Miletus and Virtual Harlem Foundation of the Hellenic World; University of Illinois at Chicago and partners 2000 Networked CAVE and ImmersaDesk VR[4]
CyArk and Open Heritage CyArk; Google Arts & Culture CyArk founded 2003; Open Heritage 2018 Laser-scanned 3D datasets and online 3D models[20]
British Museum Virtual Reality Weekend British Museum, Samsung, Soluis Heritage 2015 Samsung Gear VR, tablets and a dome[16]
Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass Louvre, HTC Vive Arts, Emissive 2019 In-museum VR stations and a home version on Viveport[21]
Notre-Dame de Paris: Journey Back in Time Ubisoft 2020 Free PC VR experience[22]
Éternelle Notre-Dame Orange, Amaclio Productions, Emissive 2022 Location-based virtual reality expedition[23]

Rome Reborn

Rome Reborn is a digital model of ancient Rome as it appeared in AD 320. The project began at UCLA in 1996 and moved to the University of Virginia in 2004, when the Politecnico di Milano also joined. On 11 June 2007, at a press conference in Rome's city hall on the Capitoline Hill, Bernard Frischer, director of the university's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), gave the first public viewing of "Rome Reborn 1.0", a real-time 3D model of about 7,000 buildings within the late-antique Aurelian Walls.[19] On 12 November 2008 Google released Ancient Rome 3D, a Google Earth layer with more than 6,700 buildings and detailed interiors of eleven structures, including the Colosseum, developed with Past Perfect Productions, UCLA and IATH.[24] Google Earth Blog reported that Google had joined forces with the Rome Reborn project and Past Perfect Productions on the layer.[25]

In 2018 the project was released as a VR experience. Smithsonian reported that it had been built by a team of 50 academics and computer experts over 22 years and recreated 7,000 buildings and monuments over 5.5 square miles. Frischer, then at Indiana University, told Agence France-Presse that it offered a flyover tour of the city and site tours of the Roman Forum and the Basilica of Maxentius; a "Time Warp" feature switches between the reconstruction and the present-day ruins.[26] The Roman Forum tour is sold as a PC VR app on the Meta Horizon Store.[27] The Roman Forum tour is credited to Flyover Zone of Bloomington, Indiana, with Frischer as producer, scriptwriter and English narrator.[28]

CyArk and Open Heritage

CyArk is a nonprofit founded in 2003 by Ben Kacyra, whom the organization describes as "an early pioneer in the development and commercialization of LiDAR technology".[20] The April 2018 launch announcement for Open Heritage stated that Kacyra set up CyArk after the Taliban destroyed the Buddha statues of Bamiyan in 2001. Open Heritage, made with Google Arts & Culture, presented more than 25 sites in 18 countries, and anyone could apply to download the underlying data.[29] In April 2019 CyArk launched the Open Heritage 3D portal for sharing 3D heritage data, with Historic Environment Scotland and the University of South Florida as data partners, and added 30 more sites to Google Arts & Culture.[30] CyArk lists 300 datasets published through OpenHeritage3D.[20]

Notre-Dame de Paris

Andrew Tallon, an associate professor of art at Vassar College, recorded Notre-Dame de Paris with 3D laser scanning and 360-degree panoramic photography. Vassar dates the scan to 2010, while Agence France-Presse reported scans in 2011 and 2012 from about 50 positions, producing more than a billion points with a precision of about 5 mm. Tallon died in November 2018.[31][32] After the fire of 15 April 2019, according to Vassar, his data helped the architects reconstruct the vaults and design the wooden centering for the flying buttresses and rib vaults.[31]

Several VR experiences of the closed cathedral followed the fire. Ubisoft released Notre-Dame de Paris: Journey Back in Time, a free VR experience, on 10 September 2020. It uses the 3D reconstruction of the cathedral made for Assassin's Creed Unity, which Ubisoft says took "5000 hours of detailed graphic work, guided by historians", shows the building as it was in the 18th century, and ends with a hot-air balloon flight over its arches.[22] Éternelle Notre-Dame, produced by Orange and Amaclio Productions realized by Emissive with script and scenography by Bruno Seillier, opened on 15 January 2022 at the Espace Grande Arche in La Défense, with later venues announced for the Conciergerie and beneath the cathedral's forecourt. It was made with the public body responsible for the cathedral's restoration, the Diocese of Paris and the City of Paris, and Orange pledged 30 percent of the ticket price to the restoration and to the Fondation Notre-Dame.[23]

Museum experiences

Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass was the Louvre's first VR experience. Produced by HTC Vive Arts with the Louvre's curators, it ran during the museum's Leonardo da Vinci exhibition from 24 October 2019 to 24 February 2020, and a home version was released on Viveport and other VR platforms.[21] Road to VR reported that the seven-minute piece was developed by Emissive, shown at 11 headset stations in the Hall Napoléon, and supported the Vive, Vive Pro, Vive Cosmos and Oculus Rift at home.[33] In the evaluation of the British Museum's 2015 event, 80 percent of the 351 surveyed visitors rated the VR activity "Very good" or "Good".[16]

Standards and principles

Because reconstructions mix evidence with interpretation, the field has produced its own guidelines. The London Charter for the Computer-based Visualisation of Cultural Heritage was conceived in 2006; version 2.1 dates from February 2009.[34] Its preamble asks that "digital heritage visualisation is, and is seen to be, at least as intellectually and technically rigorous" as older research methods, and that visualizations convey the status of the knowledge they show, such as distinctions between evidence and hypothesis. [35] Its six principles cover implementation, aims and methods, research sources, documentation, sustainability and access.[36]

The Seville Principles (International Principles of Virtual Archaeology) apply the London Charter to archaeological heritage. They were ratified by the 19th General Assembly of ICOMOS in New Delhi in December 2017. Their authenticity principle states that it should always be possible to distinguish what is real or authentic in a visualization from what is not, and their scientific transparency principle requires that visualizations be verifiable by other researchers, with metadata and paradata recording sources, methods and reasoning.[8]

Research

Survey and bibliometric studies track the growth of the field:

Study Scope Main findings
Bekele et al. (2018), ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage AR, VR and MR systems for cultural heritage Five application purposes; barriers in technology, content complexity and human factors; model resolution needs often exceed current technology, especially for internet retrieval[5]
Boboc et al. (2022), Applied Sciences 1,201 documents on AR in cultural heritage from Scopus and Web of Science, 2012-2021 Eight trending topics: 3D reconstruction of artifacts, digital heritage, virtual museums, user experience, education, tourism, intangible cultural heritage and gamification[37]
Skublewska-Paszkowska et al. (2022), Heritage Science 3D technologies for intangible cultural heritage such as acting, crafts and storytelling Most used: 3D visualization, 3D modeling, AR, VR and motion capture[38]
Jiang et al. (2025), npj Heritage Science Web of Science records on immersive technologies for heritage preservation up to December 2023 Clusters on technological applications, digital replication, public engagement and education; a shift toward interactive preservation methods[39]
Ma and Karimi (2026), Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds 306 Scopus-indexed virtual heritage articles and conference papers, 1997-2025 Growing convergence of technology and heritage studies, especially VR, user interaction and AI; gaps in global diversity, engagement with authenticity, and long-term preservation of digital reconstructions[40]

Some studies ask heritage experts to compare capture methods. In a 2026 study in Virtual Archaeology Review, Fadilah Husna Arief, Kadek Ananta Satriadi and Erik Champion showed static and interactive visualizations of Puri Klungkung, a Balinese palace, made with 3D Gaussian splatting and with photogrammetry, to eight experts in history, archaeology, vernacular architecture and conservation. The experts preferred Gaussian splatting for close-up views of complex elements such as vegetation, water and architectural detail, and preferred photogrammetry for scholarly dissemination because of its greater geometric accuracy. The authors concluded that Gaussian splatting in its current form suits public-facing projects better.[41]

See also

References

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