Great chance to look into the digital future
Conference that will mine the world of ‘augmented reality’
The most amazing holographic style 360-degree experience I’ve ever seen is something much closer to home.
Artist and Virtual Reality expert Iain Nicholls has teamed up with Yorkshire poet Ian McMillan to produce a virtual reality 1904 Coal Mine Experience.
You can be one of the first to try it try it out for yourself when it gets its premiere tomorrow and Saturday at The Scarborough News backed Exploring Digital Futures conference run by Reel Solutions at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough.
Take the controllers in hand and you are transported back in time more than 100 years to a small community coal mine.
This interactive experience, funded by the Dearne Valley Landscape Partnership, brings Yorkshire’s rich coal heritage vividly back to life as you explore a working mine, with birds flying over its outbuildings and its winding wheel.
Step into the pit cage – the lift that plunged miners down the coal shaft – and you are in the inky darkness, where one of your controllers turns into a flickering miner’s lamp, when you can pick on coal, fossils as you sidestep barrows and a shovel.
Artist Iain said: “It’s like a video game and a film, but it’s much more immersive. It feels like you are there.” Poet Ian Mc- Millan said: “This is an amazing project. It’s like simultaneously stepping into the past and the future... and into somebody’s imagination.
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At the conference, Sarah Ellis, of the Royal Shakespeare Company, will discuss integrating new technologies, and an innovative line-up on Saturday night curated by the Stephen Joseph Theatre’s Young People’s Board in partnership with the University of Hull. Tom Box, of Bafta winners Blue Zoo, and Catherine Salkeld, creator of HooDoo, are among the speakers.