Calmecac (AR)

The Calmecac Museum is housed in the basement level of the Spanish Cultural center in Mexico City. The Calmecac Museum displays an excavated and conserved part of the Calmecac building, a significant edifice from the inner precinct of ancient Tenochtitlan, the remains of which continue to be excavated from underneath the present day Mexico City.

Less than 100 meters away from the museum, outside, we find the excavated base of the Templo Mayor, the dominant and most important building in the inner precinct. We developed a digital 3D reconstruction of the main buildings of the holy precinct of Tenochtitlan and deployed it in an AR application that combined IPS and GPS for positioning and continuous movement using the same simulation from inside the museum to the excavated sections outdoors.

Calmecac is a situated simulation app. It uses advanced features of smartphones (GPS, compass, accelerometer, image tracking) to show virtual reality on the screen of the device.

Calmecac was developed in collaboration with the University of Oslo, Spanish Cultural center and CodeGrind AB.

More information at the SitSim website.