Who says you cant re-live history? Now, you can in Historic Philadelphia

Walking through time has taken a whole new meaning when GeoSim Virtual Philadelphia and the Independence Hall Association launched a Virtual Tour of Historic Philadelphia in 3D. The application, developed jointly in late June, is up and running at www.geosimphilly.com.

Using GeoSims mirror-world technology most of Old Philadelphia had been previously virtualized, but now fifty-two of Philadelphias historic sites have become stops on a virtual tour within GeoSim Philly. Users can see these sites in 3D rendering and interact with US History guides or avatars wearing period costumes who can answer questions and offer basic historic facts about the places visited. Furthermore, the virtual tour is fully integrated with the USHistory.org website so that visitors can jump back and forth between the two websites after downloading and installing GeoSim Virtual Philadelphia.

GeoSim and USHistory.org see this as an exciting first step to future stages of collaboration, including planed re-enactments of major historic events that took place in Philadelphia and more elaborate 3D recreations of Old Philly.