Numinos offers immersive walking tours that utilize virtual reality headsets to recreate historical events and locations in real-time, providing a first-person experience of the past. By combining expertise from historians and engineers, the platform addresses the challenge of understanding historical contexts in urban environments, allowing users to visualize and engage with history as it once was.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Traditional methods of experiencing historical events and locations often lack immersive engagement, relying on imagination or static displays, which can limit understanding and connection. Existing tours may not fully capture the dynamic nature of past environments, leaving participants disconnected from the historical context.
Solution
Numinos provides immersive walking tours enhanced with virtual reality (VR) headsets, recreating historical events and locations in real-time to offer a first-person experience of the past. By integrating historical research with cutting-edge technology, Numinos enables users to visualize and interact with cities as they were in different historical periods. The tours combine guidance from experienced tour guides with VR visualizations, offering an innovative and unforgettable way to explore a city's history. Numinos aims to faithfully and realistically recreate historical moments, allowing participants to witness events from the past, even those without existing graphic documentation.
Target Audience
Numinos primarily targets tourists and locals interested in history and seeking an engaging, educational, and innovative way to experience urban environments.
Features
- VR headsets providing 3D visualizations and surround sound for an immersive historical experience
- Content developed by a multidisciplinary team of historians, architects, engineers, and linguists to ensure accuracy
- Guided walking tours led by experienced professionals
- Recreations of specific historical moments and locations within the city
- Tours available in multiple languages