On the eve of the fifth anniversary of the protests in Kiev a team of 14 journalists, designers and programmers Cave New Media has developed a program Aftermath VR: Euromaidan, which project will allow the owner of virtual reality glasses to go on the Independence square of Kiev in the midst of popular protests, on 20 February 2014.
Programmers and journalists are developing a VR reconstruction of the events of Euromaidan
The authors claim that they wanted to convey the heroism of health care workers who evacuated the wounded after clashes police with protesters; the tragedy of the deaths of demonstrators and the atmosphere of despair that has engulfed Maidan in the last minutes of Board of Victor Yanukovych.
Ukraine during Euromaidan
To create a virtual Independence square of Kiev, the developers used 200 thousand images, a virtual space in the program is 200 metres away. All sources of funding VR tour is not called, but we know that the development team received a grant of $20,000 from Google Labs.
One of the authors of the project, the photojournalist Alexey Furman, expressed the hope that a detailed picture of the tragedy will help many people to cope with “post-traumatic sindromov” and deliver accurate information about how the bloody protests in the capital of Ukraine.
February 20, 2014 during protest actions “Euromaidan” protesters clashed with units of law enforcement agencies. According to the Ministry of health of Ukraine during the protests in Kiev and in the regions have killed 106 people.
