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Have you ever felt a king’s heart beating in your hands? The Lost Palace allows you to explore the largest palace in Europe… 300 years after it burnt to the ground. A unique combination of immersive audio theatre, interactive technology, architectural installations and live performance, it takes visitors through modern streets to the exact places where Whitehall Palace’s most remarkable history happened – and enables them to hear, touch and feel the past. In the words of one visitor: “I was amazed how easily modern life drifted to the background whilst the past became more vivid and alive around me.” .
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Games & Interactive experiences
Today's latest game engines and virtual reality devices make it possible to recreate ancient worlds and build experiences with a new aim in mind, not just to see the buildings in an ancient town, but feel as if you were back then. During the last two years we have been working to process the archaeological information of the Iberian ancient town of Ullastret to a complete 3D model of the city that can be experienced in Virtual Reality. A team of archaeologists, designers and programmers has translated all that data to a 3D complete model built with Unreal Engine, a videogame creation software that allows new immersive outputs like 360º videos and VR environments. The …
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Hello and welcome to the Montmartre Museum! Before becoming a Museum, 12 rue CORTOT, was home to numerous artists. The most famous of whom was Pierre Auguste RENOIR. You discover here in VR a reconstruction of Suzanne VALADON and Maurice UTRILLO’s workshop, two famous French painters. With the headset HTC Vive, the virtual museum of French painters Maurice Utrillo and Suzanne Valadon allows the user to see paintings in 3D, and be immersed in the artist's studio in Montmartre. It is in this location full of history that we invite you to relive Montmartre’s greatest moments.
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Games & Interactive experiences
it is the first time that an archeological museum becomes publisher of a pan european videogames aimed at reaching a mature worldwide audience. Father and Son is a 2D side scrolling narrative game that explores the feelings of love, dreams, fear and the passing of time through the story of an archaeologist and the son he never knew. Throughout the game, the main character crosses the lives of people from different historical eras: Ancient Rome, Egypt and Bourbon period. What begins as a personal experience, becomes a universal and timeless story where the present and the past are a set of meaningful choices. In the first two weeks the game reached 100.000 downloads and has been picked …
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MORE THAN REALITY A revitalization project of the Barone Fortress in Šibenik started in the summer of 2014. After the very successful makeover of the older St. Michael's Fortress into a prestigious open-air summer stage, this second large EU project on one of neglected heritage monuments of Šibenik had an aim to implement high-tech features to revalorize the historical story behind the fortress' construction, as well as the monument itself. Therefore, an augmented reality platform was included into the project, and it was developed along with other digital contents through 9 months of 2015/16. Barone Fortress was opened in January 2016, and AR platform is its main attraction. This …
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"The Speaking Celt" is an Augmented Reality companion app for visitors to the Museum of Celtic Heritage (Keltenmuseum Hallein) in Hallein, Salzburg, Austria. In this app, two Celtic avatars „guide“ the visitors through the museum and explain the artefacts inside the display cases. One Celtic warrior „stands“ in front of the museum as a guard. The technology used is called Augmented Reality and it works like this: First of all, users download and install the free app "The Speaking Celt" on their own smartphone (iOS, Android) from the App Store or from Google Play. They can also borrow an iPad at the reception desk in the museum. Then, within the exhibition, they look for …
