SensiMAR  Designing a Multisensory AR System To deliver more intense and enhanced experiences, multisensory applications have the goal to stimulate all our senses. The way these multisensory systems have been implemented is very distinct, since there are a lot of different approaches among them, aiming different goals. Thus, the structure defined for these systems depends on the stimuli that are being exploited, the technologies that are being used, the context in which they are being implemented, and on what is intended to obtain with the system. This study aims to propose the design of a multisensory system, named SensiMAR, that will provide an outdoor multisensory AR experience located at a cultural heritage site, allowing users to perceive different levels of immersion with the addition of a spatialized soundscape and with related smells.

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.