System: Oculus Rift Only
Price at Time Of Review: £12.39
Comfort Rating: Yellow
Genre: Virtual Tour
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
VR Shop Score 1/100: 65
Description: iGuide Knossos aims to enhance the user’s experience as a “digital” visitor to archaeological sites and monuments. Through the detailed 3d reconstruction of the monument based on Arthur Evans’ drawings and illustrations, the visitor is offered a first person navigation in the original form of the monument from any place, at any time. The user is granted the option for a personalized alternative guided tour that will include, apart from narration, animations and educational games.
Review: ‘iGuide Knossos VR’ is a rather interesting tour of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and Europe’s oldest city. This virtual tour takes you back to how it would have looked as well as laying over some 2D images of how it looks now. You follow along with a little red bouncing ball and there are at least full narration and points of interest to view. As with all these types of experiences, you will only really enjoy it if you have an interest in this sort of thin in the first place. I enjoyed it quite a bit and found it rather interesting. Sure, it doesn’t look the best and it WAY over-priced, but it does what it needs to do. If used in the right educational setting I can see someone getting value for money from this, but that is not going to be the case for most individuals.
