Outside Inn: Exploring the Heritage of a Historic Hotel through 360-Panoramas

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The paper is an excellent survey of 360° panorama virtual tours of heritage assets. It appears as belonging to a research thread by (at least) one of the authors: systematically and thoroughly survey, analyse and review different sectors of virtual presentations of cultural heritage. It is a very useful work as reference for research and for pratical applications. In the present contribution the survey is completed by the description of a workflow to produce a visualization system, resulting from the comparative anlysis of software, methodology and existing implementations. In sum, this paper can be the starting point for application developers, a guide to good practice for similar work.

Author Response

Thank you for investing your valuable time and energy in reviewing our paper on 360° Panorama Virtual Tours of Heritage Assets. We genuinely appreciate your kind words and insightful feedback. Your support and recognition of our comprehensive survey and visualization workflow are truly motivating. We are especially grateful for your inspiring comments, which have further encouraged us. Once again, we express our heartfelt gratitude for your time, effort, and contribution to our work.

Reviewer 2 Report

The article presents a review of research on 360-degree panorama tours and of the available software solutions to create them, along with the development of a prototype for a heritage building.

The article is well set up and written, however, some analyzes are too little detailed; in particular, the choice of the software solution used for the prototype is not motivated in a clear enough way.

In addition, sometimes the references are cited with the name of the author(s) followed by the number (e.g., in line 50 or 105-106) some other are cited using the format [number] as the subject of the sentence (e.g., in line 96). Please, check and unify the style.

Further and more specific notes can be found in the attached file.

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Author Response

Thank you for dedicating your valuable time and energy to reviewing our paper on 360° Panorama Virtual Tours of Heritage Assets. We sincerely appreciate the thoroughness of your suggestions and insightful feedback. We have carefully considered each point and made the necessary updates to the manuscript, which can be found in the attached document.

We would like to express our deepest gratitude for your time, effort, and significant contribution to our work.

Author Response File: Author Response.docx