Calar Alto Observatory - VR on Windows Pc

Discover Calar Alto Observatory with our VR Tour app

Calar Alto VR is a 360 Tour App experience, which gives you the feeling of walking around the Calar Alto complex that has several telescopes, discovering and learning historical and interesting facts them.

In VR the experience is so special, because you can literally be there. To fully experience the best VR tour about Calar Alto, just sit down comfortably or make some space around you with any type of Virtual Reality headset and explore Calar Alto, located at an altitude of more than 2100 meters above the sea level, enjoy the view towards the Taberna's Desert and the interior of one of the biggest telescopes in Europe.

What is the Calar Alto Observatory VR Tour application?

This is mobile application and it is free to download. You will be able to discover extraordinary parts of Calar Alto and know more about it, when it was created and why. Besides you can use the app with or without any VR glasses.

This is based on our goal of making digital tourism more acessible, to enable teenagers and adults to be entertained and increase their awareness about the world wether it's spaces, events we like to bring the opportunity to know places that otherwise would probably be impossible. We have more than Calar Alto and our goal is to launch a Crowdfunding campaign on Kickstart to develop a one app with all tours in which you can interact further.

Imagine per example showing your kids places that are not so easily accessed or even elderly to enable an experience of traveling by avoiding all the health constraints related to travelling in the real world.

From a created 360 view gallery, experience the sights, sounds, and audio guide of one of the world’s top astronomical centers, with this unique 360-degree virtual reality tour you are able to move around and discover a place that feels like a stage for the Universe.

This app also works on your phone or tablet without a VR headset. Your device itself becomes a magic screen into the 360° Virtual Reality experience as you move it around to see the scenes. You will also be able to click on the icons to listen to interesting facts or to move on to the next site of Calar Alto you wish to discover.

IMPORTANT:To get the full ultimate 360 VR experience, we recommend you use headphones or earphones.


Tips:
- Move your mobile device around and see the environment as if you were holding a camera - enable it on the top left corner.
- You can use your fingers to pan around or zoom in and out.
- Tap the screen to see the hotspots (if any). Tapping the hotspots will move you to that location.
- To prevent screen rotation disable in the top left corner.
- When in VR mode in a place, press back to return.


Our Mission

Our mission is to make VR mobile applications accessible and affordable to anyone with a smartphone or tablet worldwide. The app will be regularly updated with new and exciting content about Calar Alto, including information about reservations, guided tours, night observations at Calar Alto, and valuable astronomy tips. Stay tuned, and if you would like to learn more about the project or support our crowdfunding efforts, please contact us at info@virtualvr.eu.

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- Navigate throught the areas of Calar Alto Observatory at 2100m
- Visit the interior of the telescopes
- Enjoy the view of the tabernas desert
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