Yorescape

Flyover Zone Productions

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About this app

Yorescape™ takes you on virtual tours of historical sites around the globe, making it easy to:
• Take the trip from the comfort of your home or school
• Listen to audio commentary by leading experts explaining what you see at the points of interest
• Turn on Closed Captions for translations into Chinese, French, Italian, German, and Spanish

Yorescape currently offer 14 virtual tours taking you to these historic places:
• Ancient and modern Rome
• Ancient Athens
• Baalbek in Lebanon
• Hadrian’s Villa at Tivoli
• The Giza Plateau in Egypt
• Red Chapel of Hatshepsut in Egypt
• The Tomb of Ramesses VI in Egypt
• Tenochtitlan beneath modern Mexico City

See the sites as they exist today or turn back the clock to see how they looked in their heyday, hundreds or thousands of years ago.

Freely roam around the sites we have reconstructed in 3D to get a sense of their scale and grandeur. Yorescape includes the following roamable sites:
• The Roman Forum (Rome, Italy)
• The Red Chapel of Hatshepsut (Karnak, Egypt)
• The Tomb of Ramesses VI (Luxor, Egypt)

Ratings and reviews

It's pretty cool and sometimes beautiful. Contains some errors such as for the Rome tour, stop 28, Baths of Caracalla is labeled on the overview map in the wrong place, someone switched around the Baths of Caracalla with the Baths of Diocletian. Narration is solid but not overly technical. I wish it was possible to fly around like Google earth. I wish they showed cardinal directions on the horizon as you rotate around. I wish there were more street level views instead of mostly birds eye view.

I appreciate what these folks do, but they could go about getting funding a little better.. The website won't show anything except a link to the app... So they get that download just so you can see what they offer... Then of course they have free and premium... Premium being a RECURRING $30/year fee.... I might give you that for permanent access... But not every year just to look at some 3D models. I'm sure it's hard work, and I do have a BA in History, but those are some sketchy methods.

Fantastic learning tool! You can visit several ancient locations that have been brought back to life in the most accurate reconstructions we have. There are a couple of 3d free roam locations, too, including the Roman Forum. If you enjoy ancient history and seeing what it would've looked like, I can't recommend this enough. It's all free too!

What’s new

Improvements
• Added Cinematic Free Roam, allowing you to move around a virtual tour
• Added a new Free Roam for the Acropolis
• Cleaned up Virtual Tour UI, including buttons to quickly skip back and forth between stops
• Added 8192x4096 resolution support (in beta)

Fixes
• Dramatically improved load times
• Various other improvements