lin our tech show shift is next with a look at how east germany is being recreated in the virtual world stay with us for that don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that's d.w. dot com i'm michael ok i'll be back with more headlines for you at the top of the hour really prescience watching. every 2 seconds the person is forced to flee their home. the consequences of the disastrous our documentary series displaced depicts dramatic humanitarian crises from around the world. for good thing we don't have time to think i didn't go to university to kill people. paying people fear for their jobs and their future so they seek refuge abroad but what will become of those who stay

behind and simply. my husband went to peru because of the crisis. if he hadn't gone there we would have died of hunger on a down. district starts october 16th don't you know. germany is celebrating its 30th anniversary of reunification imagine 90 west germany and east germany reunited to become one nation what was it like join us on shift today to take a virtual journey through time. this is what the berlin wall look like and unbreachable stone obstacle on the close god dividing the city for most citizens of the g.d. are leaving. the country for west germany was not possible you had to go to extreme

lengths to flee like digging underground tunnels using virtual reality it's not possible to experience what it was like when people try to escape and on from khosla got to experience what it was like for his grandfather who dug a tunnel underneath the berlin wall. this man in this picture is also measured from go is that he's my grandfather and in this picture you see him building a tunnel under the burden wall losing of your goggles on time from chrysler and social historian beery time traveling back to the year 964 for the you tube show virtually history. i can see in his eye that he has a plan. it's just a few years now but younger is this weird names like pretty much javelin in time in the 1964 close michael vaughan quest and some friends dug

a tunnel from west berlin to eastbourne and they wanted to help people to flee the g.d.r. it took them 6 months of digging and secret to complete until you can experience the tunnel in virtual space 12 meters deep 145 to see the young tunnel builder from back then is now a pensioner when klaus michael from coarsely sees the virtual video of the berlin wall on tunnel it brings back memories from late in 64. this. way an exhausting. especially on the knees are always covered in scratches and then to move or. sometimes we had to lie during the day or in constant fear of the tunnel traps thing parked there is often called. the spite of the risks the plan works out $57.00 men women and children were able to flee. using the term which is

a place in the history books. and the famous story was the mother and families escape through a house that stood directly at the parent this could also be relived on you tube was virtually history. at a. time i had offers virtual posters exploring east berlin when it was still part of the g.d.r. the bus passes by buildings that no longer exists today which is interesting to locals. travelling through checkpoint charlie the border crossing point between east and west is particularly interesting. i think the most frequently asked question is actually where is the wall. and it's of course an enormous responsibility to present and to make this experience relive a ball. but it's also a chance to encourage people to think about what things are like them and what lessons we can learn from. them but also it's an impressive images today it really

does look very different than our state maya is a scholar of cultural studies at the university in berlin and king's college in london she looks at the ways in which we are can make history more vivid we ask how effective technologies like virtual reality truly are in bringing history back to life i think these formats work really well and considering how they're becoming more common for personal use it makes sense to use them for educational purposes but it's important to have people there for support and supervision. that's at the disadvantage is that virtual reality is designed to completely envelop and recreate an intensely emotional situation and. this can quickly lead to taking on a position that can be quite problematic especially in historical political education is a very emotional experience perhaps it's true emotion. an experience to be used to

teach history objectively luckily there's another way to time travel games in the adventure game the berlin wall players have flee the g.d.r. the developers of the game hope that it can help educate young people about what life was like in the to tell a tarion state now when exactly was this wall that's probably the most frequently asked tourist question the 0 s f a r can help with. suddenly the. complete with border patrols tanks and watch towers. using augmented reality technology the knowledge displays that virtually on your smartphone or tablet. you can even jump through the decades and see how the border. was transformed from a barbed wire fence into a concrete wall. the most fascinating moment for me is when you put your phone aside and you still have this lingering impression that the objects are still there

and that is connecting history to reality in a way that's impossible to do with a book or a movie. the berlin wall was located just a 10 minute walk from our studio here obviously test the b.f. already it's pretty interesting but i'm not fully convinced yet even though it provides spatial imagination of the was bought a during a different historical period i'm sticking with photographs of course there's more to the g.d.r. than the wall citizens don't like having their lives reduced to that if you would like to take a more personal look at everyday life in the g.d.r. the project open memory box might be for you a german argentinian filmmaker and a canadian political scientist got together to archive and digitalize home movies recorded from 947 to 990 and now publicly available it's their contribution to a. a comprehensive understanding of life and the g.d.r. . life in the g.d.r.

8 millimeter film personal memories spending 4 decades 7 years ago in lawrenceburg falls and alberto herskovitz made an appeal in the newspaper for 8 millimeter films shot during the g.d.r. they never thought that they would be able to collect more than $2200.00 from rolls . 415 hours of film have now been digitalized and archived and published on the open memory box website you can filter your search quest pacific date or let yourself drift through the empty archives selecting terms like freedom hobby or yellow to see 2 2nd film snippets repeatedly recombined randomly. and these 2 sections are listen many stories in ansel's that's something that digital technology allows. if you look at the clips one after the other it changes and it's a little bit different but it has

a different effect i just. assumed . these are videos that people innocently shot for themselves or their family. does. and that's the big difference compared to our behavior today of course. we also film our surroundings our children all the food we and the places we travel to . but the difference is that we're also always aware that we might post or share these videos. whereas this material on the other hand was never intended to be shared widely. but falls and ask if it's visited the people who do films or appeared in the videos. they were then asked to comment on the. sometimes that nice i would dream of going to west bend to see what it was. open

memory box a more personal and unique glimpse of life in the g.d.r. and what's offered in the history books what a great project but for some memories of live in the g.d.r. less pleasant the ministry of state security or stasi spied on its own citizens when it became apparent that the g.d.r. was ending they tore up to start the records but not completely 600000000 scraps of paper were left. now artificial intelligence can help to reassemble them. the computer is doing this puzzle using the scanned fragments of the records $600000000.00 little pieces are stored in the archive and then you fraction of them have been digitalized it would take centuries for humans to complete this puzzle and that's why it was invented. and the. holes size of the fragments was a very special challenge there was for example and

a 4 piece which was torn into a $143.00 pieces and the. challenge really. is the creator of the. setting machine vision at the institute for engineering design in berlin since the eighty's it's a technology that enables us to recognize and identify objects even without a template. of vision is necessary because there are many senses were human beings are unable to tell you. for mission like medical actually images for example. machines are more effective than humans in processing large amounts of pieces and complex shapes like that. memorizing content paper tiger. these casting. for priests or.

self learning algorithm reassembles those places that have been identified as belonging to gether. pilots resemble the 23 bags filled with paper scraps was the 1st they had to be digitized that soren 700000 little pieces. was able to reassemble. even though the software was working the scan it turned out to lack the necessary precision. that would enable greater precision but they couldn't get the necessary funding. even though they are. being used around the world today a program very similar to each has that is being used to put fragments back together that were destroyed like these from the 1900. jewish community center.

or these books and documents from the cologne city. in 2000. there are still thousands of bags full of shredded secrets in the stasi documents archives waiting for a machine to put them back together again. finding the right puzzle piece from 600000000 little pieces it's impressive what i can do to me projects like time right make history more tangible i also remember more details what do you think which project impressed you the most and what time period would you like to travel back to let us know on facebook or d w dot com and don't forget to have a look at our you tube channel where there's a lot more on view that's it for today and.

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