The BBC is launching an augmented reality ( AR ) app that will recreate historical images on users ' phones . It has been designed to accompany the Beeb 's new series Civilisation – a successor to the 1969 original written and presented by Sir Kenneth Clark – which will explore significant architecture , artworks and history . A VR Spacewalk. The app will enable users to view such things as Rodin 's " The Fountain " and an Egyptian mummy , as well as see virtual recreations of what sculptures would have looked like when they were first created .
The BBC is launching an augmented reality ( AR ) app that will recreate historical images on users ' phones . It has been designed to accompany the Beeb 's new series Civilisation – a successor to the 1969 original written and presented by Sir Kenneth Clark – which will explore significant architecture , artworks and history . The app will enable users to view such things as Rodin 's " The Fountain " and an Egyptian mummy , as well as see virtual recreations of what sculptures would have looked like when they were first created .