Digital Dinos

Bring prehistoric Australia to life for primary students in VR

VR Learning Simulations
Events & Activations
Sydney Opera House and ERTH Visual & Physical Inc.

Travelling back in time to prehistoric Australia, Digital Dinos is a fun explorative educational tool part of Start Beyond's collaboration with Sydney Opera House and physical theatre company Erth. Brought to life in VR, students interact with larger than life dinosaurs while exploring themes around puppeteering, sustainability, and fossils.

Digital Dinos was integrated into the NSW Department of Education's primary school VR Kit program reaching over 500 schools within NSW.

Objective

  • To produce a fun and educational VR experience as part of the NSW Department of Education’s VR STEAM Kit program for primary school students
  • A VR learning solution that was accessible on mobile
  • An application that encouraged exploration and curiosity that was easy for class rooms to use
  • To bring Physical and Visual Theatre company, ERTH’s collaboration with the Sydney Opera House to an innovative medium

Execution

  • Optimised for mobile cardboard devises, Digital Dinos gave primary school students access to a larger than life experience of Australia’s prehistoric past
  • Through gaze based interactions students not only explored the world of dinosaurs, but themes of sustainability, fossils and extinctions as well
  • Interactions in a 360 environment included implementation of existing 2D content where students could learn about puppeteering and puppet making
  • A valuable companion learning tool in a larger scale workshop program run by the opera house reaching approx. 500 schools and 15,000 students

Project Gallery

A closer look at the projects we've brought to life — from concept to final experience.

Digital Dinos app icon featuring the Sydney Opera House sail logo over a dinosaur-skin texture.
360° VR scene of puppeteers operating juvenile dinosaur puppets in a warehouse, with "Puppet making" and "Puppeteering" video panels.
360° VR scene of a warehouse with life-size dinosaur puppets, showing a Titanosaur info panel and a Conservation message.
360° view of the Sydney Opera House at sunset, with a "Digital Dinos" logo, puppeteer credits, and a "Back to Digital Dinos" button.
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