mo4ch:>#Romanovs100 in AR: Royal family returns to St. Petersburg aboard an Augmented Reality app | Mo4ch News

Russia’s last tsar, Nicholas II, and his son Alexei have been brought back home to Tsarskoye Selo and St. Petersburg – thanks to the AR mobile app the project #Romanovs100 created to commemorate the murdered family.RT’s team traveled to the town of Pushkin, as Tsarskoye Selo is now called, to see the Alexander Palace and Park, where Russia’s last royal family lived, worked, walked, paddled their kayaks, rode horses and built snow-towers in winter – away from the razzle-dazzle of the then-capital St. Petersburg.While the award-winning project #Romanovs100, which marked 100 years since the murder of Nicholas II, his wife and five children by the Bolsheviks, was initially designed to run on social media for 100 days, it culminated in the creation of a real photo album, with the best images summing up the family life of Russia’s last monarchs.Augmented Reality was used to bring this experience closer to today’s readers. This is how the photo album became a framework for explainer videos, …