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    Education & Inclusive Economic Opportunity

    Mogao Caves

    By Hyperacuity & Blueplanet VR

    Mogao Caves is a six-degree of freedom virtual reality experience that takes the user to the Silk Road site in Northwestern China. The caves were built over a thousand-year period are covered with elaborately detailed Buddhist paintings. The paintings and sculpture tell the history of the Silk Road and the confluence of cultures that intermingled there.

    The VR experience gives the user the opportunity to freely roam through the painted caves. Each cave contains strategically positioned hot spots that inform the user with voiceover and animation about the stories depicted on the walls and was written specifically for this piece by some of the leading historians in the field.

    The caves were captured using highly detailed photogrammetry, resulting in gigapixels of detail for each mural in the caves. The user is equipped with a magnifying (accessible by rotating the controller) that allows them to explore the fine details that a resolution limited headset prevents a user from observing.

    Mogao Caves was made possible by the Dunhuang Foundation in collaboration with the Dunhuang Academy.

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    Credits

    • Capture and Development
      Greg Downing
      Eric Hanson
    • Executive Producers
      Christian Hudak
      Julia Grimes
    • Writer
      Anne Feng,
      Jun Hu Dunhaung
    • Foundation Support
      Mimi G. Gates
      Judith Bollinger
      Jeff Xiong
      Jerry Yang
      Anne Chao
      Lucy Sun
      Oscar L. Tang
      Theodore T. Wang Dunhuang
    • Academy Support
      Xudong Wang
      Jinshi Fan
      Tianxiu Yu
      Jin Liang
    • Production Assistants
      Shaoyu Su
      Ante Cheng
      Charles Lindsay
      Li Zheng
    • Programming Support
      Adam Probert
      Thomas Zhang
    • Music
      John R. LaVine
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