VR application for Oculus Go that places the users onto the ship prior to the disaster. They will be able to walk around the ship with 2572 passengers. This will drive home the impact of the Eastland Disaster and show a real representation of the number of people that died as a result and how they were once people that were on a passenger ship.
VR application for HTC Vive that puts the user inside the ship after it capsized. Humanoid figures would be floating in the water (no faces are details). Users could walk through the ship underwater and see info about the passengers. The water and fish would be in slow motion. The application would also highlight structural flaws in the ship and, when pointed at, show how the flaw happened and how it contributed to the disaster.
AR phone application that would allow users to walk along the Chicago river shoreline and see body bags alongside them. Each bag would represent a passenger that died on the Eastland. As users approached them. Their face would appear in the bag as an “x-ray” image. Additional information, such as name and birthday, would also be presented. Survivor accounts could also be played as a voice over as users are walking along the shore.
AR application for the hololens that allows you to see where the ship would be standing today if it still existed. The ship would be scaled accordingly with occupants on board.There would be facts regarding the event popping around the ship.
An interactive VR that has the user look at the various flaws of the ship and it would tell you how many you were able to identify.
VR application for HTC Vive that would allow you to virtually talk with passengers who died on the ship that would answer basic questions that users would verbally ask.