great navigation
this castle is very confusing to move around and the app organized it better than the signs do. it kept me in the correct order, no going back twice. one star less because when i arrived to the terraces on top it became silent and i was alone again
works for two
we shared one set of earbuds. pause and start again is easy one handed, so the two of us got through the whole thing on the one phone
scanning is fun
the line outside was insane btw. anyway i pointed it at a random door just to see if it would even do a door. it did. scanned everything after
makes you actually look
dex described the marble turning soft into leaves partway up daphnes arm and i walked that sculpture three separate times looking for it. thats the whole value. you slow down and actually look instead of taking a photo and bailing. the ticket desk staff were rude though
slowed me way down
it told me to back up a few steps and squint at the Turners. did it for 15 minutes like an idiot. totally works
Like a documentary
sounds like a netflix doc not one of those rental headsets
Real answers
asked why everybody crowds around one specific painting and dex gave me an actual answer, not a wall label, then i hit it with three follow ups. people were walking around me while i stood there grilling my phone out loud. five bucks well spent
very good ai
you ask, it answers, then you ask again. superb
good for history nerds
im a history teacher so i figured this would be pretty thin. but the hypogeum section, the tunnel level underneath where the animals and the fighters waited to get winched up through the trapdoors, dex actually does that right. i stood in a hot corridor for like 20 minutes just listening to it. my own students tune out when i cover the exact same material, so. humbling. security line was 40 minutes though, bring water
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finally get it
ive read a ton about this dome over the years and kept none of it. dex lays out the concrete, unreinforced, still standing after 2000 years, and nobody has fully nailed down the mix. first time any of it stuck. clear without being dumbed down, which is harder than it sounds
Honest about the casts
A lot of the mounted dinosaur bone on display is cast rather than original, with the actual fossils kept in storage. Dex explains why that is standard museum practice and not a deception, and it does so without talking down to you. The hall reads completely differently after that.
Detailed content
architecture major here. theres a whole segment on how the beam of light from the oculus crawls across the floor during the day and roughly where it landed on certain dates. my professors slides dont get anywhere close to that. somebody actually did the work on this
good ending
the best detail it saves for the very end. this works
even for locals
i am from florence and this app still taught me things
Was great fun around London
Haven’t tried it around other cities but was a great way to see Tower of London and Camden.
Amazing
What a Fanta tour
Ai slop
All ai slop. Worthless.
ALL AI GENERATED
If you want to listen to awful, soulless AI-generated audio tours of a city, then you might like this app. I would recommend not to waste your money and time.
Very interesting and informative
Used it in Duomo, was very interesting and informative, loved the story telling! Haven’t used anything like this before
Unique experience
never thought I could experience a location this well. everything from the content to how the app answered everything at Tower of London amazed me
