Have you ever wished you could bring characters from history back to life? Spirited, a ground-breaking augmented reality experience, allows history to come alive in your hands.
Launched to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the Queen’s House, you can use Spirited to find the ‘spirits’ of personalities that have been part of the Queen’s House’s long and fascinating history.
Encounter Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, who was the inspiration for building the House in 1638, or come into contact with a Home Guard who was on watch during the WWII air raids. Or, perhaps you might meet Inigo Jones, the Queen’s House’s pioneering architect, or bump into the orphans of intrepid seamen during the building’s time as Royal Naval Asylum in 1806.
Start your adventure in the Great Hall by using a spirit detector to scan the room for spirits, and once you find one, they will magically appear in ‘3-D’ in front of you, as though brought back to life. Through Spirited, the more spirits you catch, the more intriguing the complex history of this iconic ‘house of delight’ becomes. How many will you find?
Spirited: A digital adventure is the first experience of its kind in the UK that uses Google’s breakthrough augmented reality technology ‘Tango’. Project Tango technology gives any mobile device the ability to navigate the physical world in a similar way to humans. The Queen’s House is one of the world’s first cultural places to trial this revolutionary technology.
