MasterWorks: Journey Through History

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Release date

February 15, 2018

Publisher

CyArk

Website

http://masterworksvr.com/

Travel to three continents and visit some of the world's most amazing places that span over 3000 years of human history. Discover the fate of the ancient capital of Thailand, the mysteries of a pre-Incan temple in the Peruvian Andes, the astonishing Native American cliff dwellings of Colorado, and the monumental stone carvings of Mt Rushmore in South Dakota. The MasterWorks Museum transports you to four fully explorable environments where you can collect artifacts and learn from archaeologists and scientists as you unravel the mysteries of who built these amazing places and learn about the challenges they face today in a rapidly changing climate.

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Gear VR

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3.55

119 ratings

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A must-see!

Tour four UNESCO World Heritage Sites just like you were there (minutes travel expenses and heat stroke), through videos, stereoscopic panoramas and, most importantly, full *3D SCANS* of the sites! This is one of the most impressive apps for the Gear VR / Oculus Go I've seen so far. It's very polished, intuitive and fun to explore. And its performance is also excellent - no hiccups at all on my good old Note 4! Thanks and congrats to the developers and everyone else involved in this production! I've found a few shortcomings, though: the experience works best with the controller (navigating with the touchpad seems to restricted your movement and is very buggy); the stereoscopic images had artifacts (e.g., I've seen a "centaur" working on a site); there are no subtitles; there is no audio "scrubber"; narrations could be a little bit faster; text could (or should) have a larger font size.

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Five for Free

By Cyark/Farbridge. Virtual tour of monuments in U.S., Peru & Thailand.

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Needs better antialising settings.

Set the antialising settings to 2x. The issue was discussed on this Oculus developer forum. Just adding one line to one of your start methods should be enought to make you app much better. https://www.google.de/search?q=gear+vr+antialising&oq=gear+vr+antialising&aqs=chrome..69i57.10300j0j4&client=ms-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 I also experience frame rate losses on the S7. Please use the OVR Metric Tool to check your frame rates in real time.

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Absolutely excellent

Such a great app. Really informative commentary, tremendous sense of presence from the (teleporting) free movement around the 3d rendered / photogrammetry sites, great extra scenes triggered by collecting objects. I love this - high quality, free and a template for how historical / art content can be presented. And can be put on an SD card (properly - I checked!). I used a Gear VR controller and would recommend using that. Would love more scenes, would be willing to pay, but thank you devs I will definitely be adding this to my vr demo list. Must download.

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