Continue the Discovery at Home

by Kacey Hadick
August 24, 2016

Thank you for visiting Mount Rushmore with CyArk! We had an amazing time at the Founders’ Day Celebration in Washington D.C. and hope you are ready to continue your adventure at home. 

While we get back to work creating new Virtual Reality (VR) experiences to share with you, we want to show you some of the many ways you can explore CyArk’s archive of Cultural Heritage sites.

Read on to learn more about exploring our collection of VR offerings!

 

CyArk Website

Established in 2003, CyArk has documented more than 200 sites on all seven continents including Mount Rushmore, the Tower of London, Pompeii, and Babylon. To learn more about these sites you need go no further than CyArk.org. Here you can find in depth information, powerful visuals, virtual tours and curated videos from some of the most precious sites on Earth.

Read more about the history of Mount Rushmore and take a virtual tour of the site here.

 

Tinkercad 

Tinkercad, from Autodesk is a simple, online 3D design and 3D printing tool for everyone. Whether you're a designer, hobbyist, teacher, or kid, you can use Tinkercad to make toys, prototypes, home decor,

Minecraft models, or jewelry – the list is truly endless! The Tinkercad website is packed with helpful tutorials and more than 30 million user-generated models.

 

The models you saw printing at the Founders Day Celebration in Washington D.C. can all be found publicly available at the CyArk Tinkercad page. Adjust, scale and add your own designs to create something uniquely yours.

Start Tinkering today!

 

Virtual Reality Viewers

Today, there are a number of high-end virtual reality headsets on the market including; Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Playstation VR and Samsung Gear VR. CyArk’s experiences will soon be released publicly for these platforms.

However, if you are new to virtual reality, Google Cardboard is an excellent and inexpensive way to get started with VR. As the cardboard experience works with almost any Android or iOS smartphone, simply place your phone in the back of the viewer and begin exploring.

Read our blog about the Sketchfab VR experience here.

Don’t have a cardboard viewer yet?

Learn how to build your own Google Cardboard Virtual Reality Glasses, like the ones at the Founders Day Celebration here.

 

Sketchfab

As the fastest growing repository of 3d content on the web, Sketchfab is the leading platform to publish and locate 3d content.

The Sketchfab interface allows viewers to move freely around or inside the 3D scene using mouse or touch manipulation. In addition to static 3D models, the viewer is also able to play and control 3D animations and as of 2016, visitors to the site can also view the models in Virtual Reality.

You can view CyArk’s models in VR with most headsets or interact with them in your browser to take a 3D virtual tour. Explore CyArk’s model’s including Mount Rushmore, here.

Or browse Sketchfab’s archive of cultural heritage models here.

 

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