The council’s innovation team hosted an event showing how immersive technologies, including AR and VR, could enhance visitor attractions of the future.
Belfast City Council’s City Innovation team has been demonstrating how immersive technologies, including augmented-, virtual-, and mixed reality (AR, VR and MR), could shape future tourism.
The team brought expert speakers, businesses and policymakers together to get a first look at proof-of-concept designs for visitor-led tourism experiences, and to gain the latest insights into how immersive technologies could enhance visitor attractions of the future, including Belfast Stories.
Augment the City competition
It marked the end of the second phase of the Augment the City industry competition, funded by the Belfast Region City Deal and Belfast City Council.
The competition challenged innovators to explore how immersive technologies can enhance the collection of stories, particularly from lesser heard voices across the city. The innovations may help shape the plans for Belfast Stories, which will open on Royal Avenue by 2030.
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Source: IOT NETWORK NEWS
