A Review of the The Eternal Notre Dame Virtual Reality Experience, Episode 378
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Annie Sargent and Patricia Perry review the virtual reality experience that they saw at La Défense in Paris. This experience is not recommended for kids under 11, probably because of the size of the backpack and 3D goggles. It will soon come to more central Paris at the Conciergerie and on the parvis de Notre Dame.
The Eternal Notre Dame Virtual Reality Experience
The Eternal Notre Dame is virtual reality experience developed by Orange and Emissive in association with the Mayor of Paris and the Church. They had also done the VR for the DaVinci Experience at the Louvre which was a sit-down VR experience. Eternal Notre Dame is a walk around VR experience where you are outfitted with a backpack which holds the computer and high-end VR goggles.
This is a completely immersive experience where you are exploring Notre Dame throughout the ages and you are moving around. You can see other participants as ghosts so you don't bump into them. It's totally safe but your brain is tricked into thinking that you're going to the top of Notre Dame on an elevator, that you can lean over a non-existing banister, that you need to take steps over obstacles. That is disconcerting but it works.
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- The other great thing that happened is that I completed my Latin Quarter Tour. The but the best place for a podcast listener to get my VoiceMap tours is to go to joinusinfrance.com/boutique where you get a discount just for being a podcast listener!
- The invasion of Ukraine by Russia, while outrageous and horrible, does not change anything in terms of travel to France.
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Discussed in this Episode
- Eternelle Notre Dame Virtual Reality Experience
- Annie's newly created Latin Quarter VoiceMap tour
- La Cité du Patrimoine et de l'Architecture on the Trocadero
- Café Lucy at the Musée de l'Homme also on the Trocadero
- Le Malade Imaginaire at the Comédie Française
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And the This is a join us in France episode 378. |
| 0:17.0 | 3.78. |
| 0:21.0 | 3. |
| 0:22.0 | 3. I'm Annie Sergeant and join us in France is the podcast where we talk about France. |
| 0:28.0 | Today I bring you a conversation with Patricia Perry about Notre Dame. |
| 0:33.0 | Lots of people on the Join us in France Facebook group |
| 0:36.3 | ask how things are going with Notre Dame. |
| 0:39.0 | The renovation especially, we'll talk about that, |
| 0:42.0 | but the bulk of our conversation is about the virtual reality show on Notre Dame that we saw at La de France. |
| 0:50.0 | It's a very, very cool, You need to hear about it. |
| 0:53.0 | If this is your first time listening to the podcast, this episode is going to be different because I'm on the road still. |
| 1:00.0 | I mean, known today. So it will be a shorter episode without much in the way of show notes. |
| 1:06.8 | I do have a couple of brief announcements first that the Join Us in France YouTube channel is back. |
| 1:13.8 | I am so relieved because I had not done anything |
| 1:17.3 | that warranted kicking me out without warning, |
| 1:19.8 | so it was really frustrating. |
| 1:21.7 | And when I, and all I did not break them, not even close. |
| 1:30.0 | Thankfully on the Facebook group David Orr suggested that I might use |
| 1:36.0 | Twitter to do an at mention for actual humans who might be able to help. I did that and I was happy to get a response but of |
| 1:45.2 | course their response was just read the terms of service and I was like |
| 1:50.8 | so I wrote back, your response, while appreciated, does not clarify anything. |
| 1:59.6 | I read through the emails sent to the address associated with the banned account, no warning, no explanation. |
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