VIRTUAL ROME

Municipality of Rome

THE EXPERIENCE IS A VIRTUAL RECREATION OF A FIGHT BETWEEN GLADIATORS AND WILD BEASTS IN THE COLOSSEUM OF ROME.

Category: 360 3D Animation

Customer: Municipality of Rome

Location: Roma (Italy)

Year: 2017

Experience: The experience is a virtual recreation of a fight between gladiators and wild beasts in the Colosseum of Rome.

Hardware: Samsung Gear, Oculus Rift, Cardboard, Oculus GO, HTC Vive

ROME VIRTUAL is an immersive experience in 360º 3D animation that transports the user to the heart of the Colosseum in Rome during the imperial era. The piece recreates with a high level of detail a fight between gladiators and wild beasts, allowing the viewer to live from the inside one of the most emblematic spectacles of Ancient Rome.

The project was developed for the Municipality of Rome with the aim of offering an innovative experience of historical and cultural dissemination, able to connect the contemporary public with the classical heritage through immersive technology.

The VR experience aims to enhance the historical heritage of Rome through the use of immersive technology, allowing the public to experience history in an innovative and sensory way. It also seeks to offer an advanced and differential tool for museums, cultural centers and the tourism sector, facilitating new formats of dissemination and revitalization of heritage. The experience is conceived with a strong educational and emotional component, capable of generating a deep connection between the user and the recreated historical context. At the same time, it aims to attract new audiences through virtual reality, bringing classical culture closer to contemporary audiences through an accessible and impressive technological language.

The experience places the user in the center of the arena, surrounded by the monumental architecture of the amphitheater and the roar of the audience. Through rigorous historical reconstruction and immersive sound design, the viewer witnesses:

  • The entrance of the gladiators.

  • The appearance of wild beasts in the arena.

  • The development of the combat with cinematographic choreography.

  • The epic atmosphere of the Roman spectacle.

The result is a stunning recreation that combines historical rigor, spectacular visuals and immersive storytelling, designed to generate a strong emotional connection to the past.

ROMA VIRTUAL was consolidated as a pioneering project in the application of virtual reality to historical heritage, demonstrating how immersive technology can transform the way history is experienced.

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