Cahokia AR Tour App Reviews

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Adds a lot to a Cahokia visit. This app is well done, it adds video animations, narrations, photos and text to tell the story of the mounds area as it was during Native American days. There are two tours, one for Monks Mound and another for the village area. Both involve walking along paved paths. Monks Mound has a staircase to access the top.

Complete Joke. After arriving we learned that the museum was closed, however a virtual reality tour was offered via this app. Mind you, the museum is free, but because it’s closed, you’ll need to shell out $5. Not that big of a deal, but a little irritating to go from free to $5. Only after you download it do you find out that headphones are required. Seriously?!?! I’m literally sitting in you’re parking lot and NOW you tell me that headphones are required? How many people just carry headphones with them? Wasted $5 because there’s no option if you don’t have headphones with you. On top of that, the app is only compatible with certain devices. We wanted to use an iPad for a bigger viewing screen, but my iPad was not compatible, so we had to use the phone. Needless to say, I’ll never be going back to Cahokia, nor will I ever donate money to them ever again. You’re welcome for the $5 donation, and thanks for screwing people over with your useless app. Oh, and if people still want to visit this horribly managed historic site, use the restroom before you go as they failed to put in portable restrooms. Saw a man forced to use the restroom in the wooded area by the back parking lot. Supposed to be a sacred site, but with no portable restrooms, they don’t give people any option but to urinate on this sacred site. Way to go, Illinois!

500 mb is too big.. Obnoxious enormous download to do on site.

Very cool and informational. If you’re visiting Cahokia Mounds, you might wonder if this app is worth the $5. I certainly think it is. It’s cool how it overlays what the city looked like hundreds of years ago over what it looks like now. It does so in a way that was easy to use. You have to have headphones if you want to do the audio tour part, so bring those! Ideas for things to add to the app would be to include guides for elsewhere around the Cahokia site - even if it’s just a simple trail guide with no fancy AR.

Must use headphones. To avoid distractions to other tourists near you, headphones MUST be used to hear audio.

AR tour not for those hot sunny days. The sun prohibits very much viewing of the app, so I wouldn’t use this on those hot hot days

Impossible to use in bright sunlight. I downloaded the app at home and you can’t practice using till you’re at the site. On our arrival,It was 80 degrees outside in bright sunshine with my screen brightness on max. I activated the camera,focused on the ground in front of the QR& then aimed at the QR sign. Nothing! Tried multiple times without success. The screen was hard to see and if there were a compass or arrow, I couldn’t see anything. I use QR codes frequently so felt irritated and grumpy instead of amazed. Put a sunshade over every access point or make the app more intuitive. At least you got a $4.99 donation from me.

Really fantastic!. Never expected to see what Cahokia looked like 1000 years ago superimposed right on the grounds! Can’t wait for my grandkids to see this! Its truly amazing!

... A must have since museum is closed

Amazing!. Such an amazing way to enhance a tour into the past! Easy to use even for someone who is not great with technology. Made history come alive. My 9 year old & my parents in their later 60s all enjoyed it.

Great Experience. A successful use of augmented reality, this app unobtrusively helped me visualize Cahokia as it once was!

Why no sound?. I was coming through on a road trip- sorry I don’t carry headphones on my person as I’m driving across the country. Thought this would be cute and informative since the visitor center is totally shut down, but can’t listen to the videos (duplicates) that show up at 3 or 4 locations because I’m not connected with my headphones. When you walk away from the sign, the video shuts off warning you you’re out of range. Ancients would have been at the site listening to birds and the sounds of city life, why can’t we when immersed in your app without headphones?

Super tour!. Brings the past to life! Easy to learn use and informative!

Fantastic way to enhance a visit!. Visited Cahokia while the welcome center is closed, so this app was a fantastic way to get more information and enhance our visit—otherwise we would’ve only had the physical signs to rely on, which would be OK but they do not have as much information as the app. The AR was delightful, and I liked the slider ability to change how much AR I was seeing: from wholly CG to just some AR buildings on the real landscape. The audio tour part was also excellent, and since I was visiting with one other person, we both wore one Bluetooth earbud so we could listen while walking. Overall, I highly recommend this to enhance a visit, but ESPECIALLY if the welcome center is closed or you’re skipping it.

A small purchase that made the visit 100x better!. The Cahokia AR app is incredible. As an archaeologist familiar with the history yet who has struggled to paint a picture of what the city would have looked like in the past during visits with friends, this was invaluable. The extent of the AR experience and it’s visual impact made this most recent visit a lot more fun and easier to comprehend for my guests!

Maybe not for an iPhone?. Happily paid for the app, downloaded it, and it froze at the first sign. Rebooted the phone and it froze again. I think a warning to consider not using a small phone screen would be nice. Even if the app had worked, reading the text and seeing the graphics in the sun on a tiny screen would’ve been unpleasant or impossible.

One star. The app will not work without headphones. The app wants you to walk off the path using the arrows. There isnt any way to shut the app off. Basically a piece of junk.

Never Change Cahokia App. To the developers of this application: please keep this as true to itself as possible. The aesthetics, features and functionality add so much to the experience and to life as a whole. Very few apps come this close to perfection. Never change, Cahokia AR app.

Never got to use it. BUY AND INSTALL BEFORE YOU LEAVE HOME or you might need an entire months worth of cellular data for the download. I Wasted Five bucks while on site, because the visitor center is closed and I was intrigued by the sign -about the app at the entrance. I Paid my fee and clicked download THEN got the warning about how huge the file size is. (something like 475 MB) Cancelled download thinking I could get some value later.... Only now discovered the disclaimer it will only work DURING your site visit. Worthless to me now. Will probably never use it - so not gonna bother with the download anymore.

Outstanding app!. I also visited while the interpretive center was closed for roof renovation. The app provided a great self guided tour! As mentioned in other reviews, it overlays varying degrees of VR showing how the Cahokia people lived 1000 years ago. Also as mentioned you have to use earbuds or headphones, so you don’t disturb other visitors. The iPhone version of the app was a little finicky when switching back-and-forth between the camera to take pics.Sometimes it would return to where you left off, and sometimes you would have to go to the menu at the beginning and then back into the video you were watching. Overall a priceless app if you want to do a self-guided tour! I can’t wait to go back and visit again, and see some of the artifacts in the interpretive center that were described and pictured in the app. I hope they plan on creating a third tour of Woodhenge with a slider bar that lets you pick the day of the year. Ie showing solstices and equinox sunrises and sunsets.

Great visit. I’ve been to Cahokia on many occasions, but never like this! This app brings the site to life. It was easy to use, and I feel like I have been able to truly experience the the history and the culture of this important site.

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