Santiago de Compostela, April 5 (EFE).- Up to 18 immersions in the Galician seabed and three months of virtual animation design have made it possible to recreate the “Submerged Galiverso”, the new virtual reality experience that allows visitors to the City of Culture discover the historical and natural underwater marriage of Galicia.
Through a virtual bathyscaphe, you will be able to observe the seabed, immerse yourself among a wide variety of fish -up to 35,000 species have been recreated-, watch whales and dolphins, observe the bottoms of the rafts dedicated to mussel farming, learn about the ecosystem that it houses the wreck of the Achondo – a sunken Basque fishing boat near the Cíes – or explore archaeological remains of historical episodes such as the battle of Rande.
The Technical General Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, Education, Vocational Training and Universities, Manuel Vila; and the managing director of the Cidade da Cultura, Ana Isabel Vázquez, presented the virtual reality installation this Wednesday, together with the coordinator of the activity, Fátima García Doval, and the divers from the 13 degree cooperative who made the underwater recordings with which shaped this experience.
In the development of the “Submerged Galiverso” a large human and technical team has worked with experts from fields as diverse as scuba diving, art history, communication and dissemination, biology, digital art and heritage.
To capture the underwater images, the 13-degree divers made 18 dives in 12 days, many of them in poor visibility conditions and at depths of up to 38 meters, obtaining high-precision photogrammetry of more than 200 square meters of seabed. .
In addition, a 360º camera was designed with special casings to recreate the three-dimensional effect of human vision in the assembly.
After capturing the images, the Maxina company team was responsible for making whales, dolphins, octopuses, algae forests, sea pens and even a school of 35,000 sardines live inside the “submerged Galiverso”, after more than 340 rendering in 4K.
The result is a journey that disseminates, through digital and immersive technologies, “the historical, economic and environmental importance of our seas, as well as the need to involve citizens in their conservation.”
In addition, in the archaeological section, specialists from the Museum of the Sea of Galicia and the Massó Museum collaborated in the recreation of the cannon of one of the ships sunk in the naval battle of Rande, of the amphora that reveals the importance of the maritime transport of goods since Roman times, or the astrolabe with which sailors orient themselves by studying the position of the stars.
The virtual reality installation can be visited free of charge as of today, with prior reservation through Ataquilla and at the Gaiás Center Museum.
The room has six virtual reality stations that carry out the trip simultaneously, with a narration available in Galician, Spanish and English and explanations of the fauna, flora, objects and places that can be seen on the seabed.
