A virtual visit of the Chauvet cave

Once connected to the Steam site, and a virtual reality headset on your nose, you make a good 36,000 years back, transported to Ardèche at the foot of the Pont d'Arc. Before us, a fire crackles. We turn on ourselves by looking up, down, left then right. We are in a camp of prehistoric men. A river flows below. "This is where we stopped under a large arch," whispers Cécile de France. In the English version, it is the voice of Daisy Ridley, the heroine of the last Star Wars . Torch in hand, we enter a cave. A cave bear walks placidly. He's home. We sink a little further. Approaching our flaming torch from the rock walls, the drawings, frescoes and engravings of animals appear. Mammoths, aurochs, ibex, felines, horses, bears ... The effect is magical. The experience, which lasts ten minutes, is very simple compared to the extraordinary virtual tour of the proposed Cheops pyramid

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