Augmented Reality experience

Published on September 13, 2023

The Great Exhibition of 1851, organised by the 1851 Royal Commission and from which it derives its funding, was held in Hyde Park, London, in Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace.
Thanks to a new augmented reality experience developed by the Royal Parks, you can now walk inside the Crystal Palace and marvel at its true scale.
Alice MacDonnell, the Great (x4) Granddaughter of Sir Henry Cole - one of the key people behind the exhibition, explains further. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7100431730905341952/ on the Royal Parks Linkedin page. Learn more about this new experience, here: https://bit.ly/44lWl3R

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