Plongez dans le système de grottes Blautopf, situé dans le sud de l'Allemagne, au cœur d'un jeu d'aventure mystère en VR. Les joueurs incarnent un spéléologue parti à la recherche d'un collègue chercheur disparu, au fin fond de ses galeries ramifiées, lacs souterrains et vastes salles rocheuses. Des scans photogrammétriques recréent de grandes portions des grottes pour une exploration interactive sur PC avec le HTC Vive.
Le chef de mission Karl guide les joueurs par radio, en indiquant les directions tout au long de l'expédition. Les rencontres avec la figure énigmatique de Lau, personnification de la grotte, évoluent selon les choix des joueurs, la transformant en ennemie ou en alliée. Ce simulation adventure free-to-play s'adresse aux passionnés de VR avides d'exploration spéléologique guidée.
The Blautopf cave system is one of the most spectacular natural phenomena of Southern Germany. Until now, the caves have only been accessible to a small number of scientists. But now, with BlautopfVR you can explore this hidden world through a Mystery Adventure Game.
Every year, over half a million tourist are drawn to the Blautopf in the historic village of Blaubeuren. What attracts them is a beautiful lake, shining intensely in mysterious shades of light blue colours. Underneath lies a broad and branched cave system with meter-high stalactites, underground lakes and huge rock halls, which hides behind the karst-spring. Yet none of the tourists have ever been underground, inside the cave. For over hundreds of thousands of years, this has been uncharted territory. Only in the 1980s, the cave system was discovered and has been successively explored ever since.
Blautopf VR makes it possible for a broad audience to interactively discover the fascinating inner life of the cave system via Virtual Reality. With the technique of Photogrammetry, big parts of the cave were scanned and then digitally rebuilt.
The creators designed the VR-Adventure Game BLAUTOPF VR – THE SECRETS OF LAU based on these virtual 3D-spaces. The player becomes a cave explorer, who is out on the search for his research colleague that goes missing. On his tour, the player is accompanied by his missions chief Karl, who gives him directions via radio signal. Deep inside the cave, the player meets the mysterious figure of the Beautiful Lau, a personification of the cave itself, who depending on the players’ decisions, appears to him as an enemy or as a helpful ghost. This VR-Game is produced for the high-end VR headset HTC Vive System.
A TELLUX NEXT/ SWR production in coproduction with KOHELET3 and IT MEDIA financed by MFG BADEN-WĂśRTTEMBERG and FFF BAYERN.
