Yorescape® is a streaming platform for virtual tours of ruins in Egypt, Greece, Italy, and Mexico (with more locations in development!). Yorescape allows you to go back in time and see the ruins spring to life in computer reconstructions. You can explore these ruins on a laptop, tablet, or VR headset. Yorescape is a word coined based on “yore,” as in “days of yore,” and “-scape,” as in landscape.
The Virtual Museum has hundreds of 3D models of classical sculpture in museums and private collections. Each object in the museum is accompanied by metadata, giving you information comparable to what you typically find on a museum label, and links to vetted scholarly information available elsewhere on the Internet.
Yorescape and the Virtual Museum are projects from Flyover Zone, an EdTech company with the mission of virtualizing and democratizing world heritage sites and monuments.
This trial is available for Rice affiliates with a NetID and password. Here's how to get started:
Yorescape
- Open Yorescape with your preferred device: https://yorescape.page.link/VAMe
- If you are on the Rice campus, you will use IP-based authentication. You will not be prompted to log in and can skip to Step 4.
- If you are off campus, you will use email domain-based authentication. Create an account with your Rice email (ex: YourNetID@rice.edu).
- Start streaming!
Virtual Museum
- Open the Virtual Museum with your web browser: https://www.flyoverzone.com/virtual-museum/
- If you are on the Rice campus, you will use IP-based authentication. You can access the full dataset and interactive models without being prompted to log in. Skip to Step 4.
- If you are off campus, you will use email domain-based authentication. You will be prompted with a message that says "To view the interactive 3D model, please login". Select login and create an account with your RIce email (ex: YourNetID@rice.edu).
- Start exploring!
Trials will run through April 6, 2025.