“Living the Past: The use of VR to provide a historical experience” by Rossa, Hoffman, Bittencourt, Marson and Cassol

  • ©Pedro Rossa, Nicolas Hoffman, João Ricardo Bittencourt, Fernando Marson, and Vinicius J. Cassol

  • ©Pedro Rossa, Nicolas Hoffman, João Ricardo Bittencourt, Fernando Marson, and Vinicius J. Cassol

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Entry Number: 38

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    Living the Past: The use of VR to provide a historical experience

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    In this work we explore the use of games and VR in order to collaborate with History teaching in Brazil. We develop a game and a VR experience based on local technology. In or approach the player is considered as an Indian who lived in the Jesuitical Reductions in the South of Brazil and was requested to practice bow and arrow shooting.

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    The authors would like to thanks Eduardo Caringi, Mariana Pritzer and Nath´alia Cruz de Oliveira for the art support. In addition the authors thanks Guilherme C´assio dos Santos for his contributions during the video production.


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