Poverty Point World Heritage Site comes to life through new on-site visitor experience - Magnoliareporter

Louisiana State Parks has partnered with TimeLooper, Inc., an interpretive acquisition exertion firm, to make the mobile exertion Explore Louisiana State Parks. The mobile app provides an interactive on-site visitant acquisition astatine Poverty Point World Heritage Site done augmented world (AR) and virtual world (VR) technology.

"With this app, visitors tin basal connected Mound A, the tallest of the 5 mounds, and visualize however Poverty Point whitethorn person looked much than 3,400 years agone utilizing a mobile device," said Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser. "It's unthinkable exertion that brings the tract to beingness allowing each visitors, including radical with disabilities, to acquisition the tract successful an wholly caller way."

The mobile app features 9 AR experiences including a invited code from Lt. Governor Nungesser and erstwhile Tribal Chairman of the Coushatta Tribe David Sickey on with 8 experiences that research important elements of the Poverty Point complex.

The Explore Louisiana State Parks app deployed for this task provides the model for aboriginal AR/VR projects astatine different Louisiana State Parks and Historic Sites. Scan the QR codification to download the Explore Louisiana State Parks app disposable done the Apple App Store and the Google Play store.

Poverty Point is located astatine 6859 Louisiana Highway 577, Pioneer, LA, successful West Carroll Parish. The parkland is unfastened regular from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For further information, telephone 888-926-5492 toll escaped oregon 318-926-5492 locally oregon travel the Poverty Point World Heritage Site Facebook page.

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