Digital tourism: virtual landscapes, travel, experience and contemplation

Speakers: Federico Ercole, Maria Grazia Mattei, Carlo Antonelli, Emilio Cozzi

Speakers:
Federico Ercole, journalist, music writes, cinema, literature and videogames;
Maria Grazia Mattei, founder and president MEET Digital Culture Center;
Carlo Antonelli, CEO, Fiera Milano Media;
Emilio Cozzi, journalist, expert in space and video game culture.

Never as in the last few months has travelling been accompanied - almost entirely - by the exploration of environments and parallel worlds, experienced by ‘tourists’ remotely connected from all over the world. Whole space-time universes that had actually been experienced by gamers on a daily basis for more than twenty years. In addition, there are overlaps between digital narratives and reality (tourist destinations included) and physical immersion through viewers inside digital spaces or representations of places on the planet. It is not merely a matter of passing through amazing adventure spaces, in many cases extraordinary and unseen, but also of inhabiting parallel spaces of contemplation where you can rest and find peace and unexpected insights.
The talk is organized in different narrative lines that explode the most advanced immersive frontiers for tourists from all over the world by analyzing new forms of entertainment related to gaming and Virtual Reality, always at the service of the visitor.