Imagine being able to immerse yourself into one of the most valuable documents from the early colonial history of the city of Mexico. Moving the digital replica with your hands, you are able to zoom in very closely. Diminutive pictograms reveal themselves to you whilst myriad sources of information become available.
You decide whether to view a historic legend rendered in digital video by a group of young designers, or examine a website created by scholars containing photographs and descriptions of the historic monuments, or even enjoy the real time imagery transmitted via a web cam overlooking the city of Mexico. These are examples of some of the things that you can already do with Media Lab Helsinki’s virtual reconstruction of the Map of Mexico 1550 by Alonso de Santa Cruz.