Up-to-date virtual UX of the Kesennuma-Yokocho food stall village: integration with social media

Abstract

The objective of this study is to develop a 3D application that provides an up-to-date virtual experience of the Kesennuma-Yokocho food stall village. This app aims to enable users to feel the "here and now" atmosphere of the site, even from a remote location. To this end, we integrate visualizations with 3D-CG models and articles on social media to keep the contents fresh. Using social media allows a user to check the status of the site, which changes each day. However, there could be too much information posted on social media. In this research, we propose a filtering method to estimate the freshness of each article, based on timestamps and text data including date descriptions. These up-to-date articles can be superimposed on the visualization of photorealistic 3D-CG models which also can be updated with reasonable costs.