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Work item: F.DC-XR-CUAV
Subject/title: Framework and requirements for XR technology to support digital cultural and tourism services using civilian unmanned aerial vehicles
Status: Under study 
Approval process: AAP
Type of work item: Recommendation
Version: New
Equivalent number: -
Timing: 2028 (Medium priority)
Liaison: ITU-T SG13, SG20, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29
Supporting members: China Unicom; Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; China Mobile Communications Co. Ltd.; Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)
Summary: Digital cultural and tourism services are evolving towards greater intelligence, immersion, and personalization. Tourists increasingly expect experiences with stronger presence, interactivity, and knowledge depth. However, current services remain constrained by fixed ground‑based viewpoints, limited real‑time interactivity, static data sources, and the separation of tourist services from operation management. These limitations hinder further quality improvement and prevent scalable deployment. Extended Reality (XR) digital cultural and tourism services using civilian unmanned aerial vehicles (CUAVs) address these challenges through dynamic aerial data collection and immersive rendering, enabling flexible viewpoint switching, real-time interaction, and multi-source data sharing, and significantly enhancing the richness and depth of the sightseeing experience. This draft new Recommendation specifies XR digital cultural and tourism services using CUAVs, and provides overview, characteristics, reference framework, functional requirements and typical use cases, so as to realize standardized, manageable and efficient deployment and delivery of relevant services.
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Sunghan KIM, Editor
Xia LI, Editor
Xiaojun MU, Editor
Rongfang ZHANG, Editor
Haoyue ZHENG, Editor
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