Could technology help reconnect indigenous communities with a rich – but vanishing – heritage?
A new approach to anthropology that seeks to build connected virtual worlds may help one of South America’s Amazonian communities preserve their heritage. What’s more, the creators of these virtual worlds believe the tech they have used to create them – a combination of graph database, generative AI, and Virtual Reality (VR) tooling – could also be connected to gaming engines to create truly immersive worlds that outsiders could ‘visit’ to learn from.
Keywords: ChatGPT • culture • GenerativeAI • HeritageRoots • virtual reality