Yorescape

Flyover Zone Productions

In-app purchases

About this app

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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.

Not nearly enough content to pay $30 per year. I don't know why they'd think this is a reasonable price for something you can blow through in a day. They also grab your email before telling you that you have to pay anything. There are other simulators, maybe this one is more accurate, but the level of accuracy doesn't make enough difference; it's still early 2000s level digital quality. Just play Assassin's Creed and you'll get much more of an experience in ancient cities.

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.

What's new

Improvements
• Accounts are now optional at the start, until users wish to subscribe
• Account login/creation has been made simpler and more informative
• Added a carousel of free tours
• Increased resolution of textures in free roams
• Updated minimum Android API to 22

Fixes
• Various performance optimizations and bug fixes related to new improvements