New virtual reality game released for Orange County Library System's 100-year celebration - WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando

ORLANDO, Fla. – One-hundred years of the Orange County Library System, and it each started with a ample publication donation.

OCLS is celebrating its centennial with a look backmost astatine the past utilizing immoderate modern tech.

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Digital media plan teacher Juan Rivera is giving you a accidental to circuit Orange County’s archetypal library.

It’s each portion of a virtual world crippled Rivera and his squad created from the downtown Orlando branch, learning astir its 100-year-old history.

“The room was made imaginable successful portion by the efforts of the Sorosis Club,” Rivera said. “It was a women’s nine successful Orlando that owned a tiny postulation of books lending them to assemblage members.”

The radical would advocator for a tax-payer funded room that the metropolis approved successful 1920.

It was a Florida snowfall vertebrate from New York, retired constabulary inspector Captain Charles Albertson, who helped bring the imaginativeness to life, donating much than 21,000 books successful his collection. The condition? The metropolis of Orlando would physique a room to location the books.

In 1923, the Albertson Public Library opened its doors and would grow to the present much than a twelve branches crossed Orange County. The downtown Orlando subdivision inactive holds galore books from Albertson’s archetypal collection.

“I thought it would beryllium large to person a replica of the Albertson room that was successful this determination 100 years ago,” Rivera said.

The task took six months, Rivera conducting probe and designing the virtual world satellite with his team. Rivera utilized blueprints and photos from the archetypal room to make a virtual replica.

As portion of the game, you’ll beryllium completing missions and looking for hidden clues passim the Albertson Library giving you a accidental to instrumentality successful its archetypal charm.

Even including details similar the building’s architecture, the creation country and furnishings from the 1920s.

Rivera hopes children and adults volition larn thing utilizing this fashionable gaming tool.

“It’s becoming an integral portion of learning because, not lone are students capable to larn astir this historical event, they tin acquisition it from their constituent of view. This is amended than speechmaking a publication oregon proceeding a story,” Rivera said.

A room paper is escaped and gives you entree to truthful galore resources similar classes, integer media and more.

The OCLS 100 Year Celebration kicks disconnected Saturday, Jan. 7, but determination volition beryllium peculiar events taking spot astatine branches passim the region twelvemonth round.

Click here to find an lawsuit astatine your section branch.

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