United StatesIMPORTANT NOTE: The Cahokia AR Tour is designed ONLY for on-site use at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. The app will not function as intended in any other location. ---------- Explore the City of the Sun What it were possible to travel through time? Journey deep into the past? Discover secrets of a people long forgotten? Today, that journey awaits you at the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. Through state-of-the-art augmented reality technology see the world of the ancient Mississippian people and their great city of Cahokia come vividly alive. • view ancient structures as they appeared 1000 years ago • discover ancient artifacts • learn about the culture and beliefs of this lost Native American civilization
Amazing!
Such an amazing way to enhance a tour into the past! Easy to use even for someone who is not great with technology. Made history come alive. My 9 year old & my parents in their later 60s all enjoyed it.
United StatesImpossible to use in bright sunlight
I downloaded the app at home and you can’t practice using till you’re at the site. On our arrival,It was 80 degrees outside in bright sunshine with my screen brightness on max. I activated the camera,focused on the ground in front of the QR& then aimed at the QR sign. Nothing! Tried multiple times without success. The screen was hard to see and if there were a compass or arrow, I couldn’t see anything. I use QR codes frequently so felt irritated and grumpy instead of amazed. Put a sunshade over every access point or make the app more intuitive. At least you got a $4.99 donation from me.
United StatesGreat Experience
A successful use of augmented reality, this app unobtrusively helped me visualize Cahokia as it once was!
United StatesNever Change Cahokia App
To the developers of this application: please keep this as true to itself as possible. The aesthetics, features and functionality add so much to the experience and to life as a whole. Very few apps come this close to perfection. Never change, Cahokia AR app.
United StatesComplete Joke
After arriving we learned that the museum was closed, however a virtual reality tour was offered via this app. Mind you, the museum is free, but because it’s closed, you’ll need to shell out $5. Not that big of a deal, but a little irritating to go from free to $5. Only after you download it do you find out that headphones are required. Seriously?!?! I’m literally sitting in you’re parking lot and NOW you tell me that headphones are required? How many people just carry headphones with them? Wasted $5 because there’s no option if you don’t have headphones with you. On top of that, the app is only compatible with certain devices. We wanted to use an iPad for a bigger viewing screen, but my iPad was not compatible, so we had to use the phone. Needless to say, I’ll never be going back to Cahokia, nor will I ever donate money to them ever again. You’re welcome for the $5 donation, and thanks for screwing people over with your useless app. Oh, and if people still want to visit this horribly managed historic site, use the restroom before you go as they failed to put in portable restrooms. Saw a man forced to use the restroom in the wooded area by the back parking lot. Supposed to be a sacred site, but with no portable restrooms, they don’t give people any option but to urinate on this sacred site. Way to go, Illinois!
United StatesNever got to use it
BUY AND INSTALL BEFORE YOU LEAVE HOME or you might need an entire months worth of cellular data for the download. I Wasted Five bucks while on site, because the visitor center is closed and I was intrigued by the sign -about the app at the entrance. I Paid my fee and clicked download THEN got the warning about how huge the file size is. (something like 475 MB) Cancelled download thinking I could get some value later.... Only now discovered the disclaimer it will only work DURING your site visit. Worthless to me now. Will probably never use it - so not gonna bother with the download anymore.
United States..
A must have since museum is closed
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Apr 8, 2024
- Minor updates to user experience
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