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"Trilobites to Man" - Lesvos Natural History Museum
I organized (together with Carlos Neto De Carvalho) the travelling exhibition "From Trilbites to Man". The mentioned exhibition takes profit of a computer vision / virtual reality software that I ideated and developed. The exhibition has been hosted in the Natural History Museum of Lesvos (Greece) where it had a remarkable success (35000 visitors in only three months) and it received a significant impact on media (the national Greek TV dealt with the opening session of the exhibition, and Czech and Greek newspapers celebrated "From Trilobites to Man").

"From Trilobites to Man" for the "Geopark Management and Geotourism" course and "Geomorphosites, Geoparks and Geotourism" workshop (at the Petrified forest UNESCO Geopark)
"From Trilobites to Man" has been exhibited to the participants of the "Geopark Management and Geotourism" course and "Geomorphosites, Geoparks and Geotourism" workshop (organized by the Petrified forest UNESCO Geopark).

TERRAGAZE at the UNESCO National Meeting (Lisbon)
At light of the success of my multimedia system for geotourism (TERRAGAZE), UNESCO Portugal invited me to develop TERRAGAZE applications for the national meeting (November 2007). In collaboration with the Geopark Naturtejo staff, I prepared the stand and the exhibition in the Knowledge Pavillion of Lisbon.

Multmedia contents for "Sam Gon's Trilobites" (Penha Garcia interpretative center, UNESCO Geopark Meseta Meridional, Portugal)
I realized the multimedia contents of the exhibition "Sam Gon's Trilobites" (organized by the Geopark Naturtejo Meseta Meridional Geopark - UNESCO and Global Geopark)

"Mongolia - 3500 chilometri dopo Gengis Khan"
I also organized the exhibit "Mongolia - 3500 chilometri dopo Gengis Khan" in collaboration with the staff of the University of Trieste.

I have been the multimedia designer and software developer of the exhibit "From Trilobites to Man", a creative show based on virtual reality. how to explain it in two sentences?

A giant trilobite is projected on the floor.
You move...and the trilobite reacts to your movements!

I developed the innovative software TERRAGAZE for the exhibit "From Trilobites to Man" hosted in the Natural History Museum of the Lesvos Petrified Forest. The goal of the exhibit is to show the active tourism spirit of the Geopark and, at the same time, to explain the geologic heritage of the Geopark. How to give a kayak ride with geologic explanations? How to explain trace fossils? The answer is TERRAGAZE.

"From Trilobites to Man" is a creative show in which the visitor is the main star.The visitor takes profit of virtual reality to explore the most important geomonuments of the Geopark Naturtejo. Each geomonument is a new adventure: seven stations take the visitor inside the wilderness of the Geopark.

Cruziana-maker. The visitor faces a challenge: he has to eat as much as possible...but to do it he must behave like a trilobite!

Cruziana-maker. When the visitors moves his arms, on the screen appears a scratch-mark. The more the visitor "eats" the more the trilobite grows...if you are faster enough you will see from protaspid to meraspid!

The exhibit had a relevant impact. In fact "From Trilobites to Man" attracted 35000 visitors in just three months, and TERRAGAZE has been invited to the UNESCO National Meting (Portugal).

"It's possible: learning Geology with success, fun and multimedia" I thought. Thus I developed the evolution of TERRAGAZE: TERRAGAZE mobile! TERRAGAZE mobile brings the power of TERRAGAZE to mobile devices.
Are you curious about the power of TERRAGAZE mobile? Click the pictures below or visit www.terragaze.com