Virtual Journey : The Voodoo World

The company Virtual Journey has launched a project to propose to the visitors of the Voodoo Musem in Strasbourg to live the peculiar rituals related to this secret religion still unknown in Europe through the use of a virtual reality head mounted device. The experience allows to be immersed at the heart of ceremonies thanks to 360° 3D videos shot in Benin, as well as to bring to life some of the museum artefacts so as to explain their usage by means of digital copies derived from 3D scanning. I’ve been involved in this project for that purpose.

I thus performed a photogrammetry scanning campaign during two and a half days so as to digitize about fifteen artefacts in relation to the presented rituals. After processing in lab, in particular with the ExRealis software that I develop, digital copies have been delivered to Virtual Journey for integration into its virtual reality application.

Officially deployed in October 2019, this project has been welcomed in a very enthusiastic way by visitors and by the press, which has offered us a fantastic media coverage.