Digital hybridity and relics in cultural heritage: using corpus linguistics to inform design in emerging technologies from AI to VR

ArXi:2604.09669v1 Announce Type: cross Hybrid technologies enable the blending of physical and digital elements, creating new ways to experience and interact with the world. Such technologies can transform engagement with relics, both secular and sacred but they present challenges for capturing faith, belief, and representation responsibly. Given the complexities of digital representation and the ethical challenges inherent in digitising culturally significant objects, a transdisciplinary understanding of these issues is needed.