?Today starts the special Olympic round of the Arcona Chronicle!

For the whole month we will be making publications about sports in metareality, cheering for the best athletes in the world and, of course, admiring the beautiful views of Paris!

? The French capital is a really special city for us. It was there that the Arcona team created one of the first AR-parks, installing a full-scale reconstruction of the Bastille Fortress on the historical site.

It became a symbol of the Great French Revolution, as well as the red Phrygian caps, which this year served as a prototype of the Olympic mascot.

As a reminder, the Chronicle's Week 1 theme is:

? Which of the Olympic symbols do you remember most and which would you like to see brought to life in the lands of Arcona?

? Or maybe you'll come up with your own....

? We are waiting for your posts with the hashtags #Olympiad2024 and #OlympiadParis!

ARCONA CHRONICLES - OLYMPIC ROUND

? Attention participants and fans of the Arcona Chronicles Challenge!

? This Thursday we will start a special thematic stage of our marathon! It will be, of course, dedicated to the Olympic Games, which already starts in Paris on July 26.

? For the next month the attention of the whole world will be focused on the competitions of the best athletes of the planet. And our social media marathon with the hashtags #Olympiad2024 and #OlympiadParis will definitely draw attention to the possibilities of augmented reality technology and Arcona meta-platform in the development of sports of the future!

? We invite all our chroniclers to support the Olympic marathon cycle. This time you can join at any stage. There will be a few surprises waiting for you in the finals!

So, tomorrow we start the first week of the Chronicles and dedicate it to the Olympic talismans.

? The mascot of the Paris games is the funny Phryges. They were inspired by the famous Frigian caps, a symbol of the freedom struggle of the French Revolution.

Week one theme:

Which of the Olympic symbols are you most memorable and which one would you like to bring to life in the lands of Arcona?

? Or maybe you'll come up with your own....

‼️ Share your Olympic mascot posts on social media, and don't forget to use the hashtags #Olympiad2024 and #OlympiadParis to get involved in the global Olympic movement.

? And we'll traditionally be rating your entries in the Telegram chat all week. Next Thursday, July 25, the three winners with the most likes will be awarded!

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? Arcona XR Metaverse has been chosen by the jury as a finalist for the annual AWE Auggie Awards 202! Now, the public voting for these awards has begun!

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? The Auggie Awards are the world's most prestigious awards for augmented, virtual, and mixed reality. For the past 15 years, they have honored the best developers in these fields!

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? This year, there is a new category for the "BEST WEB 3 IMPLEMENTATION" award. Projects that utilize blockchain and spatial computing technologies to create virtual worlds are competing in this category. Arcona is among the candidates for this prestigious award ;)

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⌛️ Voting will end on May 22 at 23:59 PST. So don't waste any time and vote for the world of Arcona right now!

? The award ceremony will be held on June 19 at the AWE USA 2024 conference in Long Beach, CA.

? A new example of the incredible bundle of XR and artificial intelligence!

⛩ In early May, China's famous Yingxian Pagoda, the tallest wooden pagoda in the world, got a digital twin. The AI created it in just 10 hours.

If such a structure had been modeled by 3D artists, the work would have dragged on for many months. Imagine, an ancient temple 66 meters high, which is almost 23 floors, with a unique and very complex architecture.

? Now the ancient monument can be studied in all details in XR helmets, you can “climb” to the very top and see the features of the unique design. The thing is that the original pagoda, built back in 1056, is now very dilapidated and visitors are not allowed above the second floor.

So how was the digital twin born?

Sounds simple enough: drones were used to take detailed footage, then AI analyzed that data and created a 3D model, restoring lost fragments.

? The Global Times writes about all the nuances of the reconstruction

? Of course, to afford drones to scan the giant building can still afford mostly companies of the Lenovo class, which was responsible for the technological support of this project. But already now there are more and more AI networks that make quite decent 3D models based on descriptions and images. This means that very soon each of us will be able to become a professional reconstructor and place our works in XR-space. And on the Arcona lands there will always be a place for your experiments.

? Friends, congratulations on Cosmonautics Day!

? Exactly 63 years ago the space odyssey of mankind began. Then the Vostok spacecraft with Yuri Gagarin on board circled our Earth for the first time.

? Today we dream of lunar stations, flights to Mars and intergalactic travel. We're sure all of this will definitely happen. In the meantime, the amazing augmented reality technology is helping us, as always.

So, do you want to find yourself in space right now?

? Here are some worthy apps!

Sky Guide
The app is very useful and beautiful. Whether you're looking for the constellation Sagittarius, trying to identify a star in the sky, or waiting for a solar eclipse, Sky Guide is full of information and rich graphics. There is a catalog of 2.5 million stars!

Cosmic Watch: Time and Space
A timeless history of the cosmos. The app has a built-in chronograph that takes you to the past and future to observe the location of astronomical bodies. There's also a great 3D planetarium and a bit of astrology...

NASA
Real Space! All about current and future NASA missions, streaming video, thousands of unique images, podcasts and interactive augmented reality features to explore the universe!

Star Walk 2
An app for aspiring stargazers. The most comprehensive encyclopedia of space with satellite tracker and inspiring geolocation AR capabilities. And one more thing: X-ray, gamma-ray, h-alpha, radio and microwave filters will reveal hidden aspects of space objects you can't see with the naked eye.

The Big Sky Above Us
This app is for real romantics! It allows you to walk around the solar system and listen to the music of your favorite planets.

? It was 10 years ago that our team launched the world's first full-fledged augmented reality park. We made a virtual reconstruction of the Livonian Order castle in the tiny Latvian town of Ludza.

Those were the wild times, when Pokémon were not running on the streets yet, and there were no such tools as ARKit or ARCore. So our developers had to invent everything themselves, right on the spot. We experimented a lot, tried different technical approaches, tested all the solutions that existed at that time. It was then that the first developments were made, which became the basis for our methodology of remote content positioning, and then our own SDK Arcona Core.

Our reconstruction artists also had a hard time! Ludza castle was completely destroyed in the XVII century, and there is very little information about its history and appearance.

Imagine a high hill above the lake, on top of which stands a small piece of brick wall... This is all that remains of the once powerful crusader fortress. We gathered information from local historians and archaeologists. Some details had to be created simply by analogy with Livonian fortresses of the same period. We even had to specially write out old books from Poland, in old German with engravings of castles. But we managed to cope with the Old German as well, and a majestic castle grew back in Ludza!

In the first month our app was viewed by almost 30 thousand tourists, although about 5 thousand people live in Ludza itself. People spent hours walking around the castle mountain and were absolutely delighted. Local restaurateurs and owners of souvenir shops then appreciated all the advantages of innovative technologies.

And then, German archeologists came to the ruins of the castle and as a result of excavations confirmed all our guesses. So, in Polish archives it was mentioned that there was a large stable for a hundred horses on the castle territory. We debated for a long time where it could have been, and chose the most convenient and logical place for it. It was there that scientists discovered the foundations of this building. Our reconstruction was found to be absolutely authentic and is now on display at the local history museum.

The world of technology has changed dramatically in the past ten years! Now you - digital archaeologists and reconstructors - have all the tools to realize your ideas. Today on the Arcona platform you can organize your own AR park literally in a day. And our team is always ready to help.

? So, Arcona XR Metaverse announces a contest of AR tourism projects

? Five winners will receive grants from the Metaverse.

⏳ Applications will be accepted until April 1.

Read all the details on our blog

? Here are the results of the contest for the best presentation of Digital Land plots.

This week only one participant dared to experiment with the design of the land card, but he did a great job!

? We thank @AlxChex for the beautiful design

https://t.me/arcona_ru/112586
https://t.me/arcona_ru/112533

and award our first participant with 200 ARCONA tokens !

We are sure that after looking at his work, you too will want to make your land cards the most colorful and memorable.

⁉️ How to do it?

Very simple - make a card of your land in the World Map section. To do this, find your land, expand the Actions tab and click on Edit Land.

Here you can:

? come up with an unexpected name;
? add a funny picture;
? make an intriguing description in prose or even in verse! The main thing is that it should be bright, memorable and short, no more than 200 characters.

Send screenshots of your cards in the chat with the hashtag #MyLand

? The results of the contest will be summarized next Saturday, and the winner, by tradition, will be determined by you, voting for the best variants.

The winners will be rewarded with ARCONA tokens!

? 1st place 150 tokens
? 2nd place 100 tokens
? 3rd place 50 tokens.

Good luck everyone!

? Friends, we remind you that Arcona Chronicles members are waiting for your likes!

All the week our chroniclers have been making great posts dedicated to the start of the Round the World Regatta. And already on January 18 we will award three winners, whose works were most liked by the community.

You still have time to look through the feed and mark the most interesting publications.

❤️?? Let's support the contest participants!