IBM and the Palace Museum have opened one of the five most important palaces in the world… to you. The Virtual Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time, a first-of-a-kind, fully immersive, three-dimensional virtual world re-creates a visceral sense of space and time—as it was centuries ago during the Ming and Qing dynasties—for almost anyone with access to the Internet.
Simply visit www.beyondspaceandtime.org, download a client and go….
- Take a tour based on historic events and stories, such as Dragons of the Forbidden City
- Interact with guides, automated characters and other visitors
- If you have an avatar, it can take part in archery, cricket fighting and play the ancient game of Weiqi
Why wait? Do something Forbidden today.
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