XRTourGuide is a web and mobile-based XR platform designed to promote rural communities by making cultural heritage and local knowledge more accessible. Using a dedicated authoring tool, users can create interactive virtual tours, tagging artwork, monuments, landscapes, food, culture and more, and adding text, audio, video, images and 3D models.
The companion mobile app uses AI-powered visual recognition to overlay these rich media experiences onto the real world, making exploration more engaging and enabling social sharing. Developed in collaboration with communities and stakeholders in Bussento, Lambro and Mingardo, XRTourGuide supports multilingual content and cloud-native scalability, thereby boosting tourism, community engagement, local economies and sustainable cultural preservation.