Visyon and Orange promote tourism in Valencia with augmented reality and 5G

The pilot experience developed by Vision y Orange for him Valencia City Council is based on the projection of augmented reality content on tourists' devices using 5G technology.

Vision (Mediapro Group) and Orange have launched a project for the Valencia City Council in which locals and visitors have been able to discover the history of the most prominent places in the capital of Turia thanks to the 5G and to the augmented reality.

for three weeks, Citizens have been able to enjoy a pilot test that aimed to lay the foundations for tourist routes in any city in the world. The experience is based on the projection of augmented reality content on tourists' devices thanks to 5G technology.

This technology provides speeds higher than 100 Mb/s and peaks up to 1 Gb/s, low latency around 1 millisecond (in front of the 20-30 more of 4G networks) and capacity of connected devices with millions of them in real time.

In this real experience the host or guide is equipped with mixed reality glasses, while tourists only need a mobile phone. The host person can 'throw' at any time, depending on where they are on the route, augmented reality content for visitors (videos, photos, extra information), that they will see on their mobile devices in the form of augmented reality superimposed on the real one.

For example, when a tourist is near the Oceanografic of Valencia, The guide can 'throw' the 3D model of the building to the mobile devices of the tourists in his group, videos and photos from when it was being built. Content that they will be able to see superimposed on reality by placing the camera of their mobile phone pointing towards the Oceanografic.

The pilot test has had the support of The Valencia Marina, the City of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Tourism of the City Council, as well as the Visit Valencia Foundation. Visyon and Orange have had the collaboration of Prensa Ibérica for this project.

The proposal also proposes a scenario where tourists move freely through the cities, no need for guides, with a mobile application that provides the material that the user needs at all times and adapted to their geolocation.

Unlike other augmented reality guides, In this case, the quality of the content is multiplied thanks to cloud rendering and its 5G connection in real time. A dedicated server is capable of creating images based on the position of each smart device and sending them with total immediacy to create an augmented experience of the highest level., taking advantage of the speed of the 5G network in the city of Valencia. This also allows you to modify the live content.

National 5G Plan

The Orange Vission Is., next to Arachnocopter, CFZ Cobots, Elewit (Red Eléctrica Group), Ether, Water, Robotnik and other collaborating entities.

This UTE develops different pilots in Valencia to promote the digitalization of different productive sectors of the Spanish economy, thanks to the application of 5G.

The enriched tourism experience is framed in the National 5G Plan, the program for the development of pilot projects of this technology executed by the public business entity Red.es, driven by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation and co-financed with the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER).

The objective of this Plan, which has continuity in the Strategy to Promote 5G Technology, is to stimulate the definition and implementation of multiple use cases of this technology through the constitution of an ecosystem of technological partners, who will join their efforts in order to accelerate the process to make the so-called 'digital economy' a reality in the near future..