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The virtual Williamsburg Project that’s
funded by the National Leadership Grant seeks

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to create a 3D interactive model of part of
Williamsburg as it looked in 1776.

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And Williamsburg is an important revolutionary
city in our history in creating this interactive

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model that shows what it looked at one particular
point in time allows us to then link information

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to the model and create an educational resource.

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It’s something that will hopefully engage
younger generations who are used to interacting

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through digital and game technologies.

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It will look like several different things
though is the issue we have.

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We have very elaborate models, architectural
historical rich models of researched forms

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of the buildings and the contents that they
were in.

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So they are going to occur in many different
places actually.

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So they’ll be ways in which people can take
tours of certain kinds of topics.

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The great thing about 3D modeling, 3D gaming
technology is the fact that we can really

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set up a multiple format.

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So we can create high resolution images of
the models that can then be embedded online.

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It could be accessed on site.

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They’ll also be the interactive format where
people can go online and actually navigate

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their way through the town virtually either
taking tours and surfing the web through the

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model or they can if they’re familiar with
navigating the virtual environment, you could

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just explore on their own and pick whatever
spaces they want to see.

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So we can actually make it available in a
whole range of different ways and that’s

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what so great about this kind of technology.

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The one little curiosity is the idea that
people come with all sorts of preconceptions

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about what things might look like.

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And so the issue of how they public will react
to some of the-- what we believe really are

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the forms that existed at that time is going
to be a curiosity.

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For instance, I think the one we most often
talk about is things like the trees.

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Everybody thinks that the tree-lined streets
and the <inaudible> 1776 time period was there

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were very few trees along the streets.

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And so it’s going to look in some sense
very different, very relative to that.

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So how the public is going to react to that
is going to be a very interesting part.