National Archaeological Museum: Live the Past
Type: Educational Spain Exploration
Image Quality: Fairly Good
Scale: Good
Length: Medium
Cost: Free
As I will say repeatedly, I like learning and exploring so this scratches an itch. There are five guided tours, yes in English with a heavy Spanish access, (you expected perhaps john rhys davies?), across time from prehistory through modern times in Spanish towns. These are short tours through a bit of town and into a house of the era. The world is modeled like a game say somewhat like a little slice of Morrowind except time traveling in Spain. There are a few backside walls missing here and there, but you won't notice them on the guided tour. You can also wander freely around the block or so and the house that was modeled.
When I type that out is sounds fairly dry, but this is another example of using VR well. You get to be a time traveler in five little slices of history and space. I kind of felt like Doctor Who, the second doctor from the original series, playing my recorder and wandering with my guide. Now granted the towns were empty but still the virtual objects were modeled and placed well enough that it gave the impression you were really in at least a game version of that time and place. There is no other media type that can come that close to time travel. I really hope Assassins Creed devs decide to sell their modeled cities to us VR folks, but until then this is a nice little piece of exploration.
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