OtherSight
OtherSight
A photogrammetry travel app that recreates real places in 3D, from the back alleys of Tokyo to the studio of the Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla. Walk around each scene, open drawers, pick up objects and listen to guides at hotspots.
OtherSight is a virtual travel app by Raiz New Media for Meta Quest, built with photogrammetry, which creates 3D scenes from many real photographs. It was announced for Quest in mid 2021 and launched around the end of that year, priced at $17.99 when MIXED reviewed it in January 2022.
At launch it offered four environments: the studio of the Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla, the back alleys of Tokyo, the interior of the abbey church of Santes Creus in Catalonia, and a street in Havana. More locations, including the Mezquita of Córdoba, were promised. Information panels accompany each place, and audio commentary plays at hotspots, with a young Japanese guide in Tokyo and a knight from the past in the abbey. Some drawers open and some objects can be picked up. MIXED found it the least polished of the three Quest travel apps it compared, with a buggy tutorial, blurry textures and less than an hour of content.
- Real places recreated in 3D
- Guided audio at hotspots
- Mix of art, religious and street scenes
- Some interactive objects
- Runs standalone on Quest
- Few locations at launch
- Rough textures and geometry in places
- Under an hour of content at launch
- Expensive for what it offers
- Buggy tutorial reported
- Developer
- Raiz New Media
- Platform
- Meta Quest
- Launch
- Around the end of 2021
- Launch price
- $17.99
- Locations at launch
- 4
- Technique
- Photogrammetry
