Virtual cultural gates: Exploring cyberspace potentials for a creative cultural heritage: An experimental design approach for the on-line 3D virtual environments

摘要

Cyberspace should be the creative extension of our universe, it represents the new architectural and spatial paradigm to dominate the world. However, it is remarkable that most of the 3D virtual worlds that deal with cultural heritage on the Internet, are most likely a pure imitation of the real world with even the same aesthetic values, regardless to the span of freedom offered by cyberspace to the designers because of its special nature.