Exploring Written Artefacts in Virtual Reality – Potential and Challenges for Creating Immersive Tools and Applications

In this work, we introduce two interactive virtual reality (VR) applications, so-called Immersive Inscribed Spaces, for researching Written Artefacts in our interdisciplinary projects. We discuss the potential of using VR to access historical cultural heritage sites and how the immersive experience facilitates individual perception of Written Artefacts. For this novel context, we explore potential use cases and present our implemented features for the VR applications. Furthermore, we examine two major challenges: (1) Spatial interaction and (2) visualization of spatial information. Finally, we describe how we integrated improvements into our applications, based on our research results.