These interactive digital and virtual reality experiences are free and available at Wonders of Wynyard during normal opening hours.

Table Cape Table

This part of the Sensing Table Cape experience introduces tactile elements of exploration of digital content in more detail using cutting edge object recognition software combined with multi touch sensitive tables. Visitors can pick up a lighthouse object and place this on the digital table to reveal a wealth of information about the lighthouse, its construction, and historical information about community life on Table Cape and at the lighthouse. They can pick up a piece of rock, and learn about the geology of the area. A tulip in a pot reveals information about the process of tulip farming. The user curates their own exploration of content based on what piques their curiosity. Additionally, there are interactive games, photographic collections and video-based content accessed through the multi touch interactive screens. This content provides a wealth of local information, stories, and journeys into the hearts and minds of the locals through their stories and creative endeavours.

Glass Elevator

This fully immersive 360-degree Virtual Reality headset visual experience takes the viewer on a ‘glass elevator’ ride flying over Table Cape during Tulip season. Splendid views over the tulips, out past the edge of the cape, over fossil bluff and back allow the viewer to experience Table Cape in ways that are not humanly possible. Key points of interest are marked out in the journey, as the viewer glides over the landscape accompanied by an evocative soundtrack composed by local musician and artist, Michael Cannon. The viewer has full control over what they wish to look at on the journey, casting the digital vision in any direction to enrich their experience of the cape.

Walking with giants

‘Walking with Giants’ supports users to experience virtual content in an accessible and inclusive environment. In doing so, the virtual reality explorer is able to stand above Table Cape, with a giant’s perspective, to survey a digital photogrammetry rendering of the cape, and a variety of objects that invite the traveller to explore the cape further. Picking up an object using virtual reality hands allows the traveller to learn more about the geology of the cape, the tulips and a brief history of the people who have lived on the cape over time.

Sensing Table Cape is an initiative of Business Nothwest, supported by West by North West Regional Tourism Organisation. The project was made possible by grant funding from the Australian Governmetn under the Recovery for Regional Tourism program administered by Austrade.

For further information on the project visit Sensing Tablecape – Sensing Tablecape (tablecapexp.com)