Mirroring Condor Flights in California

In this interactive project for California State Parks installed at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park (JPBSP), the visitor uses their outstretched arms to soar as a California Condor above Big Sur.  The visitors use their bodies to bank, dive and lift in virtual 3D space as they follow flight paths from actual California Condors. Our…

Tracing Architecture & Epigraphy at the Ramesseum

Dr. Christian Leblanc (CNRS) leads the archaeological team at the Ramesseum, the Mansion of Thousands of Years of Ramses II in Western Thebes, Egypt.  Since 2000, INSIGHT has contributed to the ongoing scientific exploration of the Ramesseum. Despite significant dismantling and reuse in antiquity, the Ramesseum is a remarkably complete example of a Ramesside temple. …

Recording Quarries in Aswan & Gebel Silsilah

Beginning in November 02008, INSIGHT joined a team from Egypt’s Supreme Council for Antiquities (SCA) for an expedition in Egypt to study ancient quarries.  The goal of the field work was to test current thinking about how Egyptian quarries worked by studying traces of ancient excavations and visualizing cumulative extractions of stone over time. In…

Visiting Nakhtamun’s Tomb Chapel in VR

As part of a larger survey of Theban tombs, INSIGHT documented the tomb chapel of an ancient Egyptian priest called Nakhtamun (TT341), a name meaning “the god Amun is powerful”. The field work on site in Egypt brought collaboration with chemists in Dr. Philippe Jockey’s lab at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. INSIGHT contributed…

Connecting People Via VR Gaming at Mesa Verde

CyArk invited INSIGHT to join their work at Spruce Tree House and Balcony House with National Parks Service archaeologists. Subsequent field seasons added to the field data collected and led CyArk and the NEH to create Resonant: An Immersive Game for Connecting People to Cultural Heritage, seen in the clip below: The US National Park…