Since confinement, lovers of culture have been biting their brakes. Fortunately, they can now quench their thirst for knowledge thanks to an art often devalued: video games. Passionate people have indeed taken the initiative to recreate places of knowledge in virtual universes, in order to allow the curious to visit them despite everything.
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The city of Albi was thus completely reproduced in the famous construction game Minecraft , which has tens of millions of users around the world. Since the beginning of the month, the tour guide from the tourist office has offered a digital excursion twice a week through the alleys of the city, embellished with historical anecdotes.
Animal Crossing New Horizons
To attract natural science enthusiasts, the Museum of Angers has chosen another platform: Animal Crossing New Horizons . Released a few days after the establishment of confinement, his benevolent world has seduced the crowds. Even if the fictitious collection of the museum has only 60 objects against 500,000 for the original, the digital tours are sold out until May 10.
The impatient can fall back on YouTube, where Ubisoft paid tribute to Notre-Dame de Paris. A year after the fire, the game publisher released a virtual reality video of the cathedral, as it appeared during the Revolution. The 3D models were developed for the development of Assassin's Creed Unity , another successful video game.