Inpresso AR: a generic Augmented Book Augmented Reality (AR) is a technology that enables to show virtual information superimposed on the real world and interact with it. In recent years, this technology has been heavily explored in various contexts, with a focus on enriching the experience provided by smartphones and wearables. AR books techniques consist of adding interactive and immersive properties to physical books, transforming the reading activity into a unique experience. In this paper, it is proposed a generic augmented book that is capable of downloading and playing different AR experiences for any existing book. A hybrid experiences specification schema was defined to characterize the AR experiences. The proposed augmented book application recognizes a book, downloads from the server the experiences specification file associated with it, builds the necessary AR experiences assets and plays them. A prototype was built and some preliminary tests were conducted. The approach described here allows physical books to be connected with remote servers, transforming them into dynamic sources of information and into products much more immersive, interactive and attractive.

Augmented reality for cultural heritage education In the past few years, it is noticed a fast adoption and increase of mobile devices that are able to retrieve information quickly, regardless of the userxe2x80x99s physical environment. Thus, application developers have leveraged it by developing a variety of applications using mobile Augmented Reality (AR) in domains such as cultural heritage education, shopping, gaming, and more. AR technology overlays a virtual object into the real world that enables users to have virtual and realworld experience at the same time. During a visit to a cultural heritage site such as a museum or an art gallery, the learning experience and enjoyment is necessary for a visitor and AR introduces new opportunities to improve them. We propose an ARbased framework for cultural heritage education. We aim to promote cultural heritage education by enriching userxe2x80x99s experience and at the same time to offer the knowledge with the most enjoyable way. In order to evaluate our framework, we have developed a server application and an ARbased smartphone application.