Source: Lonelyplanet.com
A new virtual reality telescope, known as a Timescope, has been erected in Paris and aims to transport its users back to the year 1628 to show them what life would have been like at the same spot during the Middle Ages.
Located next to the Pont d’Arcole bridge, along the newly pedestrianised area on the Georges Pompidou road, the free Timescope viewer gives a 360-degree interpretation of the medieval Paris, with cargo boats slowly rocking under the weight of their goods and the skyline standing as it would have done.
The founders of Timescope, Basile Segalen and Adrien Sadaka came up the idea after coming away disappointed from a trip to Pompeii. They had wanted a better idea of what the city was like before Mount Vesuvius erupted.