Dinaldi Chamber VR Experience
App Instructions & Additional Information
We Suggest Using Google Cardboard
DinalediVR is designed for Google Cardboard. You can make your own Cardboard Viewer from a box, some Velcro, and a soda bottle!
To get Cardboard viewers for your classroom, CONTACT US or order from Google.
App Instructions
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Where am I going?
The Rising Star Cave is in the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage site near Johannesburg, South Africa.
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The Chamber
The Dinaledi Chamber is 30 meters underground and to get there one must squeeze through an 18 cm gap.
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What will I find?
You will experience what the cave looked like in March 2018.
As you explore the cave, you will find fossils that belong to Homo naledi, an ancient human relative.
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How to explore
Look in all directions around the cave.
Look directly at the fossils to highlight them.
The Virtual Dinaledi experience can be exited at any time.
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Additional Resources
About Homo naledi- general information/overview
https://www.wits.ac.za/homonaledi/
https://figshare.com/articles/Discovering_Homo_naledi/1559937 (Unbox Science poster)
National Geographic
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/homo-naledi-human-evolution-science/
https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/tag/rising-star-expedition/
More FAQs
http://ewn.co.za/Features/Naledi/FAQ
https://www.wits.ac.za/homonaledi/age/questions-and-answers/
Videos & Special media
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/dawn-of-humanity.html
http://ewn.co.za/Features/Naledi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1oGNPvLeOY (Juliet Brophy TEDx)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzbJf11zaDo (Marina Elliott TEDx)
