The National Park Service (NPS) is partnering with iTech Preparatory Middle School in Vancouver, Washington, to create an online virtual reality (VR) project that will allow people to explore historic Fort Vancouver in the comfort of their own home.
History students from the school are teaming up with national park archaeologists, curators, and interpreters to create a web-based, interactive experience. The project will be known as FVvr (Fort Vancouver virtual reality).
Students, using special cameras, will capture 360-degree images of the outside and interiors of buildings at Fort Vancouver, as well as features of the landscape at the site. The images will then be linked, and combined with audio descriptions of the park's history. Using headsets, users can immerse themselves in a VR experience that will make them feel as if they are actually touring Fort Vancouver in person.
Project leaders are iTech teachers David Midkiff and John Zingale, park curator Theresa Langford, and Bob Cromwell, the park's chief ranger. The system should be available online by the end of April.
National Park Service officials might consider teaming up with school officials and creating material describing the new program that could be distributed by using a Mailing service. They could request a Mailing be made to people in a targeted area, such as Vancouver and its suburbs, using the Every Door Direct Mail option.
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