Revive Family Photo Albums through a Collaborative Environment Exploiting the HoloLens 2

While human culture evolves, human heritage remains frozen in time, engraved in material culture as a testament to the past. Among such materials, pictures amount to a prominent example, as they yield information and clues about what happened in the past. In fact, pictures from the past represent a unique chance to revive old memories about affections, relatives, friends, special events etc. During all of the 20th century people printed and collected pictures in photo albums, namely family albums. Even if this phenomenon is not as popular as before, due to the advent of digital photography and the spread of social media, such kind of photos are still of interest, for all those who like to look back and discover their families’ pasts. At the time of social distancing, such photo albums may represent a link between people who are forced to stay away from each other and a distraction from worries and fears. For this reason, we here propose an augmented reality application, as a digital application that may bring people together and support the exploration of the content of photo albums with the aid of artificial intelligence paradigms.