Jewish Cincinnati Bicentennial Celebration
Mobile Walking Tour

Virtual Grounds collaborated with the Jewish Cincinnati Bicentennial working committee to design, develop and implement a historic walking tour as the central part of this year-long celebration. The walking tour visits current, former and now vanished Jewish places of worship and landmarks in Cincinnati's West End and Downtown area.

Client: ISH Festival / Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

  • Interactive Map Walking Tour

    The web-based application includes a complete Signature tour and two shorter paths through the West End and Central Business Districts so visitors can tour the area at their own pace.

  • Audio Narration and GPS location

    Each stop accesses a page with historic images and information about the landmarks both in written and audio format. The interactive 2D map includes GPS capabilities and a suggested tour path overlaid on the map tiles.

  • Augmented Reality and Social AR

    Selected tour stops promote a re-interpretation of historical photographs and images as part of augmented reality features to be experienced on-site and as Social AR filters, bringing to modern-day landscape an overlay of important and significant historical moments.

Walking Tour Gallery

Three tour paths, plenty to visit. Tour the area at your own pace and learn about the rich history of the Jewish community in Cincinnati, OH

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  • Augmented Reality as Web and Social AR effects

    The mobile tour includes a set of augmented reality (AR) experiences with virtual assets selected from the images created by native Cincinnatian J. Miles Wolf. The virtual panels are also available as effects at the @ishfestival Instagram account.

  • Ish AR

A Way to Connect to the Bicentennial Celebration

“I’d like people to say that they learned something about both the history of Cincinnati and the history of the Jewish community in Cincinnati.
I would like for them to be excited because we are involving so many different groups of people in this celebration.”

Kim Heiman, co-chair, Jewish Cincinnati Bicentennial