The General Director of Cultural Heritage, Juan Antonio Lorca, participated this afternoon in the second test of the new technologies that are being developed to facilitate the visitor of the Museum and Roman Theater of Cartagena an immersive experience applying virtual reality and 360 degree vision.
This project was approved by the Board of the Theater, formed by the Autonomous Community, the City of Cartagena and the Cajamurcia Foundation, in December 2016, with the aim of improving the quality of visits with the application of new technologies in collaboration with the company'Imageen '.
Lorca said that "this system of virtual visits to the Roman Theater Museum of Cartagena is based on the use of different mobile virtual reality devices and 360 degrees.This is an immersive experience in which the visitor, when accessing the monument, can visualize through glasses, the same building rebuilt as it was in Roman times ".
To achieve this goal, the visit contemplates the vision from three marked points combined with the sight of the same monument, as well as the theater recreated with hyperrealistic quality, as it was twenty centuries ago.
In addition to the immersion, there is a guided tour that can be selected in English or Spanish, which will explain the transition from the present to the past, detailing the different architectural elements and the life of the Roman Theater of Cartagena.
Source: CARM