Author: Christiana Polycarpou

Virtual reality company Lithodomos VR has created an incredible reconstruction of Athens, just as it was 2,000 years ago. Imagine being able to put on a VR headset, being transported back in time, and exploring Athens exactly as it would have looked in its prime. With Lithodomos VR, this is precisely what you can now do.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund and Nesta have launched the findings of a pilot programme, in a report titled Matching the Crowd – combining crowdfunding and institutional funding to get great ideas off the ground.

What kind of reality do we want to live in – a virtual or augmented world? Two of the most powerful men in the technology world disagreed this week on whether VR or AR was the answer. On Tech Tent we discuss which technology is winning. We also hear from teenage tech award winners with an optimistic view of women’s place in the technology industry, and we meet the founder of Evernote who tells us why the world has fallen out of love with Silicon Valley.

Assassin’s Creed Origins introduces a brand-new “Discovery Tour” mode, which will be added to the game in a free update in early 2018. It’s a completely different way to experience the Ubisoft’s worlds, with a focus — in a nifty twist — on education.

With its latest project, El Tercer Ojo, the journalists are transferring their notable digital reports on the transnational pharmaceutical industry and trafficking of cultural heritage into a series of print editions, with digital version, they hope will reach new audiences.