Georgina Rose Hill
VR Specialist
Radstock Museum: VR Mine Experience.
VR Mine Experience Overview
For our final project for our FdSc in Applied Computing, Barry Lewis and I created a VR project for the Google Cardboard for Android mobile phones. Our client was Somerset Coalfield Life Radstock Mining Museum and our aim was to try to increase public interest in the museum. The application is a mine experience designed to give fun, yet also educational, information about conditions in the mines. We worked very closely with the museum and ex-miners to ensure the best results for the client.
The application is still being used to-date and has helped with the goal of attracting more customers to their establishment.
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Ride on a mine cart through an immersive 360 experience, learning about what things may have been like for the miners that worked in these environments in the past.
Project Description
This game is designed for Google Cardboard.
As this application was created for a specific client, we do not distribute or exhibit this application to anyone. To experience this ride, visit the Somerset Coalfield Life Radstock Mining Museum at weekends when they're running the VR exhibit.
Made for Radstock Museum
Release: February 2018
Where has/will this been exhibited publicly?
2018-PRESENT
VR Exhibit - Somerset Coalfield Life Radstock Mining Museum
This application is still in-use today on weekends at the Somerset Coalfield Life Radstock Mining Museum. They are currently running two variants of the ride, the standard experience edition and a special Halloween experience edition that can be experienced during the Halloween season at the museum.
February 2018
Release - VR Mine Experience
We were able to set up a small technical demonstration exhibit at the release event for this application, where Barry Lewis and I demonstrated this application alongside our other VR concept projects that we had to-date.