Images of Ancient Olympia and its digital representation travel around the world. From the Washington Post and the images displayed in New York’s Times Square, and from the media in Taiwan to faraway New Zealand, the digital revival of the birthplace of the Olympic Games yesterday in Ancient Olympia made sense.
The Associated Press’s 7-minute television tribute aired last night on the world’s largest news networks, such as the BBC, and on channels around the world.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the Associate Press (for cooperation with Microsoft) that thanks to “advanced augmented reality tools, we give visitors the opportunity to travel 25 centuries back in time. “Our ability to digitally restore ancient monuments opens new horizons for how we can experience our cultural heritage.”
Footage from Times Square in New York
“I am absolutely excited to be able to present to the world a completely new cultural experience using technology to recreate the ancient world of Olympia,” Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the AP, who met a group of students who used the app for the first time. .
Greece’s Culture Ministry has teamed with Microsoft to create an immersive virtual tour of Ancient Olympia, birthplace of the Olympic Games. Local school children used the augmented reality app for the first time. Full story: https://t.co/CSfp7jnheN pic.twitter.com/G6PqIJG484
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 11, 2021
Launched in the birthplace of the Olympic Games, entitled “Ancient Olympia: Common Place”, the project allows viewers around the world to explore Ancient Olympia more than 2,000 years ago through an interactive mobile app by browsing the digital form of the historical space on a computer, as well as through the exhibition of Microsoft HoloLens 2, housed in the Olympic Museum of Athens.
At the same time, it restores 27 digital monuments, including the Stadium, the temples of Zeus and Hera and the workshop of Pheidias, while allowing the visitor to walk the streets of the sanctuary in one of the most important periods of history.
The project is the result of a collaboration between the Ministry of Culture and Sports and Microsoft, using artificial intelligence and augmented reality technologies.
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