EnterCY: A Virtual and Augmented Reality Tourism Platform for Cyprus

Soteris Constantinou, Andreas Pamboris, Rafael Alexandrou, Christoforos Kronis, Demetrios Zeinalipour-Yazti, Harris Papadopoulos, Andreas Konstantinidis

Abstract: This demo paper presents EnterCY, an integrated Virtual and Augmented Reality Tourism platform for Cyprus. The platform's web-based, spatio-temporal virtual exploration component allows potential visitors to explore the rich cultural heritage, variety of activities, and wealth of sightseeing locations in Cyprus before their visit. EnterCY also enhances tourists' experiences during their visit through its mobile component, which offers on-site visual and audio guidance, personalized recommendations, as well as entertaining and learning features (e.g., story-telling), based on mobile-friendly Augmented Reality, location-awareness and Machine Learning technologies. Through Immersive Reality technologies, the platform provides for an after visit experience by creating personalized 360 video mementos of tourists' tours and supports integrated features that allow for experience sharing in popular social media platforms.