Sky VR experience will allow users to tour London museum with David Attenborough
The interactive experience called Hold the World will be available in the spring.
Sky is set to launch a new virtual reality experience that will allow its customers to have a “one-on-one” audience with Sir David Attenborough in their living rooms.
The interactive experience – called Hold the World – lasts between 20 minutes and an hour and will be available this spring via the Sky VR app.
It is set at London’s Natural History Museum with Sir David acting as a tour guide in the form of a lifelike 3D hologram.
They can pick up and enlarge objects such as a trilobite (fossil of an extinct arthropod) to examine in detail, with a virtual Sir David imparting his expert knowledge as he sits opposite the participant.
Other featured items in Hold The World include a blue whale, a stegosaurus, a dragonfly, a butterfly and a pterosaur.
More than 100 cameras were used to film Sir David and the footage was used to digitally recreate the broadcaster and naturalist in VR.
The museum’s CT scanning department worked with scientists and animation teams to create the VR specimens.
“Hold the World is an extraordinary next step in how we can communicate and educate people about experiences they wouldn’t usually have access to in the real world.
The move coincides with the relaunch of the Sky VR app which will see a new piece of VR content released each month.
