CHICAGO ØØ: St Valentine's Day Massacre - virtual reality app

Chicago00: St. Valentine’s Day Massacre brings photographs and documents from the Chicago History Museum's archive to the site of the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre through virtual reality. The photos collected here, some well-known, some rare, tell this familiar Chicago story in a new and compelling way.
Featuring selections from the Chicago History Museum, Chicago Tribune Archive, John Binder Collection, and Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office, the narrated immersive, interactive experiences work with or without a virtual reality viewer, and put the user in the shoes of the photographers who captured this infamous moment in Chicago history. The free VR app offers the ability to zoom-in to examine individual photos and learn more with extensive text captions.
More at: www.Chicago00.org
Presented by:
The Chicago History Museum & Geoffrey Alan Rhodes
Funded by:
The Princess Grace Foundation, USA and The National Endowment for the Arts
About the Chicago 00 project:
The Chicago 00 Project is a partnership between the Chicago History Museum and filmmaker Geoffrey Alan Rhodes to produce and publish a series of site-specific, interactive, immersive multimedia experiences designed to showcase the Museum's film, photo, and sound archive and share Chicago's stories in new and unique ways.
All Chicago00 augmented and virtual reality experiences are free. Each episode explores this new medium for sharing Chicago's rich media archives with the public: history embedded in the objects and places of our city.
www.Chicago00.org
PROJECT CREDITS
Conceived by
Geoffrey Alan Rhodes and John Russick
Designed by
Geoffrey Alan Rhodes
Major Funding
The National Endowment for the Arts
The Princess Grace Foundation USA
Additional Support
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Historical Photographs & Documents
Chicago History Museum
Chicago Tribune Archive Photo/TNS
The John Binder Collection
Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office
Music
"Pharoah's army got drowned,"
(unknown performer)
Edison Diamond Disc, recorded July 9, 1924.
"Prelude in C sharp minor op. 3"
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Edison Diamond Disc, recorded March 12, 1920.
Text
Trevor Cunnien
Geoffrey Alan Rhodes
John Russick
Rosemary Adams
Panoramic Photography
Geoffrey Alan Rhodes
Xiaoting Che
Special Thanks to:
Angela Hoover
Joseph Campbell
John Binder