DARIAH-Campus

Fotis Giariskanis is a multidisciplinary creative technologist and computer engineer specializing in interactive experiences, XR, animation, and serious games. His work spans R&D, HCI, UX design, and prototyping, focusing on transforming passive audiences into active participants. He has served as a teaching assistant in ECE and as a reviewer for IEEE VR. He is currently working as a Creative Tech Engineer in VR/AR/XR and Research Associate at Athena Research Center, contributing to the Artemis project.

Introduction to Shared AR/VR Environments for Collaborative Exploration

This resource introduces the fundamental concepts of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), presents contemporary AR/VR headsets and their capabilities and explains how immersive technologies can support the use of Reactive Heritage Digital Twins (RHDTs) for information visualization, annotation and collaborative interaction within virtual environments.

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Introduction to Shared AR/VR Environments for Collaborative Exploration