Caracalla Baths guide issues
The Caracalla Baths guide has a lot of development issues that need addressing to justify its cost.
Firstly, the 3D VR is set to portrait mode with no way to adjust to landscape mode, so is effectively useless; however, you can the VR in landscape mode in 2D. The graphics are pretty basic, but they do help paint a better picture of how the baths would have appeared while in use.
There is audio available for each viewpoint of the tour in both VR mode and simple audio guide mode, but the audio for viewpoint number 2 simply repeats again and again in rooms 3-6 while in VR mode.
There is no map of the grounds available on the app, which would have been of great help as the grounds are vast and physical signage is very spread out.
The audio guide did not offer much more than rudimentary information that one would expect to find in a brochure. It would have been wonderful if the developers could add more richly detailed commentary by archaeologists and historians. As I mentioned before, the grounds are *vast* and it would have been nice to listen to some commentary by experts on lesser known facts while strolling between guide points. There wasn’t any information available about the library or taverna.
I think the app is a great idea, but it is far from fully developed.
Firstly, the 3D VR is set to portrait mode with no way to adjust to landscape mode, so is effectively useless; however, you can the VR in landscape mode in 2D. The graphics are pretty basic, but they do help paint a better picture of how the baths would have appeared while in use.
There is audio available for each viewpoint of the tour in both VR mode and simple audio guide mode, but the audio for viewpoint number 2 simply repeats again and again in rooms 3-6 while in VR mode.
There is no map of the grounds available on the app, which would have been of great help as the grounds are vast and physical signage is very spread out.
The audio guide did not offer much more than rudimentary information that one would expect to find in a brochure. It would have been wonderful if the developers could add more richly detailed commentary by archaeologists and historians. As I mentioned before, the grounds are *vast* and it would have been nice to listen to some commentary by experts on lesser known facts while strolling between guide points. There wasn’t any information available about the library or taverna.
I think the app is a great idea, but it is far from fully developed.
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