Keiji Yano, a professor of the Faculty of Letters at Ritsumeikan University, has jointly developed a free smartphone app "Virtual Heiankyo AR" (Android version) that brings back the scenery of Heiankyo to the present using AR (Augmented Reality) technology. The service started on Google Play from June 2018, 6.
So far, Professor Yano has collaborated with Cad Center to create a service "Virtual Kyoto" that reproduces a 3D map on the Web by incorporating the landscape of Kyoto in the modern, Heian and Edo periods as a 3D city model. ..
This "Virtual Heiankyo AR" app was developed by utilizing the 3D technology of "Virtual Kyoto" and the location information by GPS. In AR mode, you can see the model of the Heian period at the same coordinates on the current landscape, targeting the area inside the Ouchi Ura (about 1.4km north-south x about 1.2km east-west) where the emperor is located.The map inside the back of Ouchi is displayed and the direction can be recognized, and the current location is updated every 10 seconds, so it is also compatible with movement. In VR mode, you can experience the view of Heiankyo 4 degrees at 8 points on Suzaku Oji, which stretches about 1km north and south from Suzakumon to Rajomon, and at the Rajomon model (10/360 scale) in front of JR Kyoto Station. ..
