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UWA Historical Tour

Take a 360º virtual tour of UWA's Winthrop Hall, Hacket Hall, Whelan Court and more!

Description

Look While Learning

  • Drag your mouse or finger around the screen to view your surroundings.
  • Each image has information icons on points of interest. Hover over these icons for the name of the object; click it to learn its history!

Navigation

Experience the tour as though you are really walking around UWA's campus.

  • In each image, there are clickable navigation icons that will bring you to the location it is hovering over.
  • Additionally, there are navigation arrows in the bottom right corner that can be pressed to move to the next or previous location.
  • Click the Home button to return to the start of the tour!

Map Orientation

  • At each point of the tour, the map in the bottom left corner will show your current location on the UWA campus with a noticeable persona icon.
  • Observe that the light blue circles on the map show the relative position of each point of the tour with one another.

Installation

yarn
yarn start:open

Usage

  • Upon launching the application the user is presented with the starting position.

Start tour

  • From here, the user can navigate to the other locations along the tour by selecting the icons located at the bottom right. drawing

  • From here, the user can navigate to the other locations along the tour by selecting the icons located at the bottom right.

  • To learn more information on any page, select the drawing icon to expand the side bar.

  • The side bar, as dipected below, provides further detail on the points of interest, along with additional imagery and history of the sites.

start tour sidebar

  • As the users navigate through the tour, the mini map updates.
  • The position is denoted by the drawing icon on the minimap in the lower left hand corner.

mini map

Authors & Acknowledgment

Authors:

  • Liam Yit Huan Tien
  • Luke Barratt
  • Antonio Joboy
  • Guohuan Li
  • Luke Bryde
  • Drew Alexander

The copying and use of any historical photos and text, unless otherwise stated, must fully acknowledge the UWA Archives intellectual property. Please ensure that, in full, the P number and accompanying title of each image is displayed with the photo.

License

CC0