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with an enjoyable and educational experience. In this 3D audioguide (available in English and Spanish) the animated characters Boabdil, Morayma and Charles V accompany young visitors on their tour of the monument in Granada. These characters are contextualised in the parts of the palace complex they lived in and give a rst-person account in inclusive language of the history and curiosities of each place. At some points of interest the app also includes educational resources for this age group such as interactive and guessing games in the manner of a treasure hunt to ensure that they enjoy and, above all, learn from the experience.thus allows us to go back in time to present to the general public a large portion of our history through the testimonies that survive to the present day.This possibility has spurred the widespreaduse of applications entailing virtual visits with 360-degree panoramic images. The proliferation of mobile devices has made it possible for these reconstructions to be viewed in situ, improving the experience of visitors to heritage sites and enabling them to learn more about them.Rome MVRRome MVR187 is one of the rst applicationsfor mobile devices to provide a tour of several historic parts of the city of Rome through time, showing what it looked like across the ages using the Time Window system.Designed by the multimedia rm Altair4 Multi- media,188 this app is based on 3D reconstructions of the city’s history that can be viewed in situ using the Time Window device. It is a mixed virtual reality system that contains virtual reconstructions of the city’s main monuments, allowing users to see what it looked like in earlier periods with an interactive overlap, fading over between the 3D reconstruction of the past and their current appearance.Visitors to the Colosseum can access a virtual reconstruction of this building during the period of the Roman Empire using this applicationand through the camera built into their mobile devices. Also, using GPS, digital compass and gyroscope data, it allows visitors to explore a vir- tual 360-degree perspective of the area to learn about the original context of the monument in question.This app189 is available for download in the App Store for iPhones/iPads and features a free version for the Colosseum and a paid version for visits to the Roman Forum, Palatine Hill and Imperial Fora.Figure 16 - Animated character of the Nasrid king Boabdil in the children’s audioguide to the Alhambra. Screenshot. Source: La Alhambra, Castillo Rojo2.3.2 Virtual recreations in situBy virtual reconstruction we mean creating models using data acquisition techniques that enable us to represent existing structures or structures no longer in place but of which there is su cient evidence (ruins, plans, photographs, etc.) to ensure a good likeness of the original.These new instruments, with their abilityto transmit knowledge and the results of art-historical research, enable experts to draw conclusions or devise various hypotheses about lost worlds, but they also provide new means of disseminating heritage.The virtual recreation of heritage elements that no longer exist or have been drastically modi edAC/E DIGITAL CULTURE ANNUAL REPORT 2017165The use of digital technologies in the conservation, analysis and dissemination of cultural heritage