The Great Exhibition of 1851 in VR
Release date: Sep 26, 2024
Developers: Hooked Wit
Publishers: Hooked Wit
Genres: Simulation
Categories: Single-player, VR Supported
Supported languages: English

The Great Exhibition ran from May to October 1851 in London's Hyde Park, in a temporary building known as the Crystal Palace. Six million visitors passed through the turnstiles, to view over 100,000 individual exhibits. Now, over 170 years later, we are recreating the exhibition as an immersive VR experience. The simulation includes a narrator to describe each of the exhibits and the Crystal Palace building. Fire up your SteamVR system and explore the Great Exhibition... If no VR headset present will run in fallback mode (monitor / keyboard / mouse). Note: this is a large application and can take some time to start up. 


Notes: The "mature content description" / age restrictions on this simulation are based on: (1) nudity in models of paintings and sculptures which is similar to what would typically be seen in a museum or art gallery; (2) one of the exhibits at the exhibition was a wax model of a dissected head which invokes a rating due to violence (corpses).