Interactive Native American app created in San Diego - CBS News 8

SAN DIEGO — Ever wonderment what autochthonal American onshore you’re lasting on?

In a recently launched app based successful San Diego called Our Worlds, users are immersed into a virtual world that takes them backmost thousands of years to research the tribal onshore and culture.

With the Our Worlds app downloaded, you tin constituent your telephone astatine La Jolla Cove and larn it is Kumeyaay land.

“It works anyplace successful the world, each azygous people is represented,” said Catherine Eng.

Eng and Kilma Lattin developed the Our Worlds app successful San Diego. It allows users to research Native American onshore and larn astir the civilization done virtual reality, holograms, and 3D augmented world specified arsenic being wrong a autochthonal boat.

When it identifies the indigenous territory, you tin pat connected phrases successful autochthonal languages.

“We person the quality to enactment indigenous languages backmost successful places wherever they belong,” said Eng.

There are stories from assemblage and taste leaders, doctors, tribal chiefs, elders and musicians who collaborated with the app developers.

“There are elders, they intelligibly person an unthinkable wealthiness of knowledge. How does that get passed down to the adjacent generation? It's successful environments similar this, the benignant of dependable of the speaker,” said Eng.

The mobile-based geolocated immersive world app to link the affluent tribal past with people.

“With Our Worlds, what radical are capable to bash is from an outdoor spot similar Hawaii, Cove park, oregon Oceanside, oregon Ocean Beach, oregon Mission Valley oregon anyplace successful San Diego (and the world), they tin acquisition Native American civilization outside,” said Lattin.

SANDAG reported San Diego County has the largest fig of Native American tribes successful the United States but the app is for each cultures astir the world.

“Community doesn't conscionable beryllium to Native Americans. Everyone is autochthonal from somewhere,” said Lattin.

Our Worlds is an grant winning acquisition tech app that won the South by Southwest Launch competition this year.

“We envision thousands of stories,” said Eng.

Rich tribal stories that tin beryllium told astatine each quadrate mile.

“Using these emerging technologies is simply a fantastic mode to comprehensively seizure culture. When you speech astir however successful extent our level is, really, it's a testament to however intricate and heavy civilization and civilizations tin be,” said Lattin.

The app is presently connected iOS but yet volition beryllium connected Android.

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