TBM Staff - Mumbai FlyView Paris is an innovative cultural and tourist leisure site that offers uncommonvirtual reality experiences to discover Paris and the world’s most exceptional placesand monuments as you have never seen them before. Accessing where no one else can access, seeing what no one else can see,experiencing what no one else has experienced. FlyView uses technology and thepower of storytelling to create breathtaking, original experiences that are consistently spectacular and fun. Launched in April 2018 with its first experience The incredible Flyover, Flyview Paris hassince expanded its offering with 4 other experiences that have already provided 600,000 visitors with unforgettable moments.
After the Flyover Paris in 2018, FlyView Paris, in coproduction with Atout France and the Centre desmonuments nationaux, is launching “The FlyoverFrance”.This virtual reality experience combines unprecedented aerial imagery with cutting-edge technology to make us fly like a bird over the mostremarkable sites of France.
After passing through the doors of a futuristicterminal secretly installed on Place de l’Opéra,visitors are welcomed in a new kind of boarding room. Takeoff is imminent. Equipped with a virtual reality headset, the pilots of the day are propelledinto the air for an incredible 10,000 km journey without leaving Paris! Thanks to exceptional aerial images and spectacular moments of free flight, the experience allows you to rediscover the most beautiful places and landscapes of France: the village of Gordes in the heart of the Luberon, the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel, thespecial lighting of the castle of Azay-le- Rideau and the Pont du Gard, the impressive cliffs of Etretat, the needles and glaciers on the Mont- Blanc route. For Atout France and the Centre des monuments nationaux, who have joined forces withFlyView, this new experience shows the willingness of the partners to support the return oftourism in France. Through this invitation to explore France, they want to encourage the public to discover the heritage offerings of various destinations across France. “There are many ways to discover a destination: the immersion and the reality of flying bring that magic touch that sets us apart. FlyView experiences immediately immerse the visitor in the image and the destination in a way that no other media can.”
A breathtaking flyoverImmersed in a journey of beauty, visitors discover France from an entirely new perspective: by flying with an incomparable 360° view.Between discoveries, little-known stories, incredible landscapes and historic architecture, visitors are taken on a journey of discovery of breathtaking panoramas, monuments and places that make up the richness and splendor of France. Hovering over the Mont-SaintMichel Abbey, visitors will touch the archangel who threatens the dragon from the top of the abbey.
15 places flown over
• The village of Gordes
• The cliffs of Etretat
• The castle of Azay-le-Rideau
• The castle of Villandry
• The castle of Chenonceau
•The Pont du Gard
• The volcanoes of Auvergne
• The castle and ramparts of the city of Carcassonne
• The abbey of Mont Saint-Michel
• The village of Kaysersberg
• The Little Venice of Colmar
• The ramparts and city of Saint-Malo
• The city of Paris
• The Mont-Blanc massif in Chamonix
• The natural park of Vercors
A flyover made possible by advanced technology
This new flyover is a hybrid creation that combines 360° video with several new sequences in realtime 3D. Sometimes visitors are guided in a 360° image whose realism is reinforced by haptic devices (wind, jetpack movements on jacks); sometimes, at the turn of a virtual portal, they find themselves totally free to move around in 3D landscapes, as realistic as they are dizzying.
A technical and filming device of record
To achieve this feat, FlyView relied onseveral large-scale 3D scans and exceptional aerial filming across France bymicrolight and with the help of drones. In figures: over 30 days of aerial shooting in 10K for an exceptional image quality, more than 10,000 km travelled, a hundred hours of 8K 360° images and some firsts intandem flight: the gorges of Verdon, the Mont-Blanc massif at more than 4500m of altitude.
Parisians and visitors alike enter the hall of what looks like an airport terminal on the Place of the Opera, with its counters, hostesses, and signs announcing upcoming flights for Fly over Paris With its 50 jetpacks, the take-off area is one of the largest virtual reality realizations in the world. Installed aboard his jetpack (mounted on jacks),and equipped with a virtual reality headset (HTCVive), the Flyviewer sees himself take off and riseabove the roofs of Paris. The sensations of flight are more real than life.
A spectacular flight
The course leads us to discover the main monuments of Paris in a new way:The Concorde, the Champs-Elysées, the Arc deTriomphe, the Eiffel Tower, the Seine and finally, the most spectacular, Notre-Dame. After Paris, an incredible escape: 7 dream destinationsthat visitors will cross thanks to breathtaking 360 degreeviews.
AN UNRIVALLED TECHNOLOGY KIT
FlyView took 3 years of preparation for the hundred or so people who developed the project. State of the arttechnologies were gathered around this ambitious project:
• The views above Paris (exceptional) were shot with a drone, a device of 7 cameras at 360 degrees and a
• team worthy of a film production.
• The authorizations to shoot above Paris and at such a proximity to the monuments are a first.
• The 50 jetpack simulators mounted on jacks were custom developed and built in France.
• The HTC Vive virtual reality headsets offer the most realistic immersion.
Take-off, advance, stops in panoramic vision, rotations, lateral displacements, descentsnear a monument: this sophisticated device combines the movements of the platformin synchrony with the movements of the jetpack to create an immersive experience offlying over Paris with ultra-realistic flight sensations for young and old.
A unique experience to discover the hiddenside of Paris
Conceived as a teleportation center, this Visit of Paris Undercover takes the curious on a virtual journey from one place to another, in 360 degreeimmersion. Through the use of virtual and augmented reality technologies, visitors are transported through a Paris that would otherwise remain inaccessible. A great opportunity to discover, beyond the backstage of Paris, new fascinating perspectives on the capital.The visitors find themselves in the machinery of the Eiffel Tower installed in the 19th century in the basement, access the glass roof of the Grand Palais, the largest in Europe,climb to the top of the spire of the Sainte Chapelle, descend into the secret corridors ofthe Pantheon, discover the canal that runs under the Place de la Bastille, and finish their journey on the roofs of Montmartre at sunset.
A fabulous trip between emotions, surprises and wonder!
The most successful virtual reality experience in France With a teleportation time of 18 minutes, ” Paris Undercover “, is the largest cultural immersive visit attraction in France.In a 32-seat room, FlyView has brought together the most advanced technologies to create a totally unique experience :
• Images shot in 8K with the help of drones above and inside Parisian monuments and latest generation cameras.
• Latest generation HTC Vive Focus virtual reality headsets with audio.
• 360 degree special effects, motion design and 3D animation to offer a visit “enhanced” with visual and sound effects to add magic to the experience.
After the tragic fire that devastated Notre-Dame of Paris and shocked the world, and while the heavily weakened building remains inaccessible to the public, FlyView is opening a spectacular attraction in Paris: tomake us “Rebuilding Notre-Dame” by transporting usinto the cathedral in virtual reality as if we were reallythere.
A striking expérience
Let yourself be carried away in the building as it wasbefore the fire, from the vast nave to the gargoyles, through the bell towers and the sacristy. Through toreal 360 images filmed before the fire, discover in thevirtual reality helmet the incredible history and the backstage of the Notre-Dame of Paris cathedral.The immersion is spectacular. But that’s not all. FlyView then takes you to the other side of the palisades, to see thecathedral in its current state. Cross the central nave to the transept crossing. You can see agaping hole, barely concealed by a tarp. You are standing at the exact spot where theburning spire fell and tore the vault. In front of the altar, the marble is cracked, the floor stilllittered with rubble. From the interior of the cathedral to the scaffolding balanced above thevault, you are transported into a unique experience, gripping with emotion.
A palpable emotion
At the sight of the cathedral so heavily damaged and so majestic at the same time, you are seized by emotion. Immersed in spectacular “before and after” pictures that bring back to life the soul and the memory of the cathedral, you take the measure of the catastrophe, and of the work that remains to be done to “save” Notre-Dame.
An exceptional production
Produced by Targo Studio, with the support of the public institution in charge of the conservation and restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral, the virtual reality experience was designed from real images filmed in 360 video a few months before the disaster, then in December 2019 as close as possible to the destruction.
To bring visitors into the most visited monument in Paris, inaccessible since the fire of April 15, 2019, the production teamobtained exceptional permission to enter and film inside the destroyed cathedral. The images were taken by drone and by rover, a remote-controlled machine made indispensable by the lead contamination.
Boarding at FlyView, Place de l’Opéra. Your destination:the Saqqarah Meydum Pyramids and the worldfamous Great Pyramids of Giza, a UNESCO WorldHeritage Site.On site, put yourself in the shoes of a budding explorer:thanks to the magic of digital technology, you willdiscover the mysterious history of these monumentsthat have shaped the culture and imagination ofpeoples for 5,000 years. FlyView is the world’s firstvirtual reality reconstruction and offers an unusual experience not to be missed!
An extraordinary journey
Equipped with a 360° virtual reality headset, you will discover the Great Pyramids from theair – a few moments of a privileged flight around these stone giants, for a long time thelargest buildings ever built by Man. A rare opportunity, we enter for the first time inside theGreat Pyramids to explore the secret galleries and chambers that protected for several millennia the sacred remains of the Pharaohs.A true technological feat, the realism of the experience is striking: you will feel as if you werereally there. Fun and instructive, the experience is punctuated with information and animations that allow the youngest to discover the thousand-year-old history of these monuments and the secrets of their past.
Explore an exceptional heritage
Designed in collaboration with the French startup Iconem, a pioneer in the digitization of heritage, the 360° virtual reality experience is the result of an extraordinary entrepreneurial andscientific adventure that has seen Iconemconduct large-scale 3D digitization campaignsin Egypt and around the world. The technology used consists of a high-definition X-raycomposed of hundreds of thousands of photos. “By bringing these thousand-year-oldmonuments back to life through the magic of digital technology, we want to make a large audience aware of the crucial issues of preservation and rehabilitation of our worldheritage.”
