WDR AR 1933-1945 Status

As the witnesses tell their stories, you see 3D visual elements: You find yourself in the middle of a battle in World War II or stand in front of a fence in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.  Augmented reality, or AR for short, is technology that lets you place virtual images, three-dimensional animations and additional information in real rooms.  With Augmented Reality, this National Socialist crime against humanity becomes tangible in a completely new way. “Children of War” is about World War II as seen through children’s eyes.  It lets the contemporary witnesses sit across from you like holograms or walk through the room and tell you what they experienced during the Nazi era.  In the chapter “My Friend Anne Frank”, her best friends recall the days of their youth, as well as Anne’s arrest and death in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.  Let augmented reality take you right into the stories, and experience up close how children and teenagers experienced the “Third Reich”.  Use your tablet or smartphone (iOS 2017 or later) to bring all these 3D animations and holograms into any room you choose.  Augmented reality blends the real world with virtual elements.  German bombers flying through your room in attack formation, London burning right in the middle of your very classroom.  WDRAR19331945 is easy to use: Aim your smartphone camera at an empty space on the floor from two metres away.  As they tell their story, you can look around the room and live the experience with your smartphone.  In “18 and Sent to War”, Wehrmacht soldiers talk about being frightened to death and feelings of guilt.  The stories are short, around three to five minutes, but very intense and very moving.  There are three stories: Anne from Cologne experiences the war in an air raid shelter. “It was hell,” she says.  Our app consists of three individual stories about the Nazi era.  The last contemporary witnesses are at an advanced age, some over 90 years old.