A Journey to the Gulag - film premiere and VR experience

On Wednesday, October 2, 2019 was the premiere of the documentary film "A Journey to the Gulag" about our third expedition to the Dead Road. The movie is available for download on the film website www.journeytothegulag.com.

Besides the story of the expedition from 2013 itself, it shows how the Gulag Online Museum was created and what our new projects in virtual and augmented reality are based on. The length of the film is 31 minutes, directed by Tomáš Polenský.

More information about the film can be found at www.journeytothegulag.com.

The premiere took place at the Association of Virtual and Augmented Reality (AVRAR) at the Czech Technical University in Prague, where visitors could also get acquainted with our pilot version of Gulag's virtual reality experience.

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