Real virtuality: use of hypermedia and VR in the field of education and cultural heritage

This paper briefly introduces a couple of projects that represent the work currently in progress care of the ISET Department of Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in the field of Cultural Heritage and Educational Multimedia. The first project started two years ago, and aims to create a virtual environment in education and training; a first phase pilot project is actually running as a support to computer aided design course. The second project, is called Museums Over States and Virtual Culture (MOSAIC) co-funded by the European Commission in the TEN Telecom framework. Both this projects are taking advantage from the combined use of VR and hypermedia