Have a Jurassic lark in your living room
FANCY a night at the museum or a trip to a Jurassic park to liven up your lockdown lessons – from the comfort of home?
Now you can, thanks to an app that marries prehistoric times with the latest technology to bring extinct creatures back to life.
Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, the Museum Alive app uses augmented reality to turn your home into a prehistoric zoo.
While it may still be a while before museums can physically reopen their doors, families can virtually watch a sabre-toothed tiger, known as a Smilodon, or fly around the room with a Dimorphodon, one of the earliest known pterosaurs from the early Jurassic period.And don’t worry if you go goggle-eyed at the sight of the Opabinia, a 500-million-year-old fish-like creature with five eyes and a trunk.
Sir David said: “It’s really exciting to take these stories and bring them to a new young audience via a digital platform, which allows you to explore these extraordinary creatures in a way people have never been able to before.”
Telling the story of our planet over millions of years, the app is an extension of Sir David’s 2014 documentary Natural History Museum Alive.
Elliot Graves, of app developer Alchemy Immersive, said: “We really hope the excitement of bringing fossils to life in the home will provide a novel experience.” ●●The app, for iPhones 7 and up, is £2.99 from the App Store
TECHNOLOGY has really come on apace. Future is now the present and it is bringing us the past. The Museum Live app where people can see a 3D Jurassic World is truly extraordinary and really brings dinosaurs and prehistoric times to life.
The app – made by Alchemy Immersive – is an extension of Sir David Attenborough’s 2014 documentary Natural History Museum Alive and is a fitting tribute to a man who has done more than any to bring the wonders of nature into our living rooms.