A brand new interactive story-telling exhibition coming to Dundee this week will rejoice town's well-known Olympic heritage - alongside a few of its lesser-known athletic stars.
StoryTrails calls itself "the UK's largest immersive storytelling expertise" and can use augmented and digital actuality (AR and VR) expertise in addition to immersive cinema to assist individuals expertise the Metropolis of Discovery like by no means earlier than. Utilizing well-known narrators like native working star Eilish McColgan and historian David Olusoga, locals will have the ability to faucet into the historical past of Dundee's Olympic successes and extra.
In Dundee, the path has been developed by BAFTA-award successful filmmaker Duncan Cowles and follows the story of two of Dundee’s sporting heroes: Dick McTaggart and Sarah 'Cissie' Stewart. McTaggart gained an Olympic gold medal in beginner boxing in 1956, and got here house as a hero, even having a gymnastics centre named after him in his house metropolis.
He was not town's first Olympic medal winner, nonetheless. That was Cissie, who picked up a silver medal for swimming in 1921 - however she obtained no hero's welcome upon her return house.
The augmented actuality path makes use of smartphone expertise and a particular StoryTrails app to retell the tales of McTaggart and Cissie, utilizing footage from nationwide archives and pictures from the BBC and the British Movie Institute. For these with out good units, Dundee Central Library within the Wellgate Centre could have some to lend out.
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The Central Library may also host a 360-degree 'cycloramic' cinema display making a mesmerising digital map of Dundee by means of the ages, developed by Neil Cullen, who studied in Dundee and specialises in immersive storytelling. And guests can pop on a digital actuality headset to expertise life within the UK within the Eighties and Nineteen Nineties.
A lot of the expertise has been created by quite a lot of animation and VR/AR specialists together with ISO Design, Nexus Studios and Niantic, who created the 2016 cellular smash hit Pokemon Go, which noticed gamers exit into the true world to catch monsters utilizing their cellphone digicam.
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Professor James Bennett, Director of StoryFutures and StoryTrails, stated: “That is about getting individuals enthusiastic about the place they stay – serving to them join with tales of their city from the previous and current by means of a brand new lens. New applied sciences like AR and VR may also help construct these connections and reignite individuals’s ardour for the previous. These applied sciences are for everybody – we need to discover methods to interact individuals from all generations and spark a real celebration in every of our unbelievable places.”
Dundee's StoryTrail runs on Thursday July 7 and Friday July 8, ranging from the Central Library. For more information, go to story-trails.com.
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