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HistoPad is revolutionizing the augmented visitor experience across nearly 20 cultural sites in France and internationally.
Created at VivaTech in 2016, our Augmented Exhibition format enables major heritage institutions to travel worldwide through immersive and interactive experiences hosted in prestigious venues connected to history and heritage.
Our projects include experiences dedicated to Notre-Dame de Paris, D-Day, and more recently the American Revolution, with an exceptional deployment across the United States.
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00:00We stay in a museum. Our final guest of the day is History Veri, a French startup that built the
00:12Histopad, an interactive tablet you use in the museums and heritage sites to see history come alive in front of
00:23you.
00:23The Histopad traveled the world with the Notre-Dame exhibition after the 2019 fire used at the Conciergerie in Paris,
00:34the Chateau Chambord and thousands of other heritage sites.
00:40Please welcome Bruno De Samorella, CEO and co-founder, and Quentin Defoe, business developer from Histopad.
00:54Gentlemen, the discovery stage is yours.
01:00Can we have a round of applause for the last speaker?
01:06Yes, yes you can. One more.
01:09Guys.
01:11Bonjour Ă  tous. Hi everybody.
01:14We're very happy to be concluding this day and actually to be following up Sofia
01:21because we do have a project together with Ask Mona and we look forward to telling you more about that.
01:27So in Histopadry we are creating time traveling experiences.
01:32The idea is to create interactive and immersive journey into history.
01:41We would do that in museums, in monuments, in touristical sites and now as well in exhibition.
01:51And today we are happy to share with you the latest news from the latest exhibition we are exhibiting in
02:00the United States,
02:01American Revolution for the 250th anniversary of the creation of the United States.
02:09So this exhibition is actually in three different cities, in New Orleans, in Charlotte in North Carolina and in Washington
02:20DC.
02:21And I suggest to share with you a very brief video clip so you'll be able to see what it
02:29looks like.
02:34And we can run the video.
02:48Stand back, young man.
02:54For god's sake, take care of your men.
02:57With big fires your life must be answerable.
03:23It's the whole damn Royal Navy.
03:35We must all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
03:47Among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
04:20It looks like a video game, but it's not a game.
04:24It's history.
04:25Every images you've seen have been validated by the Experts Comedy,
04:31which is a group of very talented and recognized experts that helped us reconstruct the past.
04:41And so together with Quantine, we would like to show you what you would do if you would be in
04:48this exhibition today.
04:50So you would be equipped with the HistoPad tablet, and you would scan 20 time portals,
04:57and each one of them is taking you back in time to one place of the revolution.
05:02Here, we're traveling back to 1776, the very night of December 25,
05:09when the army of George Washington is desperate after losing so many battles against the British.
05:17So the last chance is now to cross the river and to surprise the enemy on the other side.
05:23But how can you do that with so little boats, so little support?
05:29This is what we explain here at the very place where it did happen.
05:34So perhaps we want to compare 1776 to today.
05:38That's what we do. That's where we are today, exactly the same spot.
05:41So not only are you traveling back in time, but you are also traveling in space and visiting the United
05:48States.
05:49This today is a national park, and this house was there, part of it.
05:54And you could click on all the white dots. Let's click on Washington, for instance.
05:59Let's see where he is, the general.
06:02Actually, there he is. He's on a ferry, and that ferry will help him cross the river with cannons, with
06:08horses, back and forth.
06:09He's telling us, you can't hear well, but we've done research about his accent, his language, his tone.
06:19Every detail has been researched and validated with our experts.
06:26It's very interactive. Anyone can do it. You click on images, so every generation is able to enjoy this journey
06:35into history.
06:37And actually, what we see is that it's bringing more people to be interested by it.
06:42So now I'm learning, what's this yellow thing, Quentin? Can you click on this yellow thing?
06:47That's a treasure hunt game for the kids. So you did find the piece of the treasure, and if you
06:53put it in your treasure chest, you'll see all the other treasures you can find.
06:58But of course, you would have to visit the whole thing and move to the next scene.
07:03So now, all the kids, they don't want to leave without finding all treasures and visiting the whole piece.
07:11So, if we go back to the main scene, well, you would learn that this Durham boat, it's interactive,
07:19and you could explore that object in a way and learn about so many topics because of its interactive quality.
07:30Those experiences will take you through 25 years of history, and if you go back to the main scene, I
07:40think you got the idea.
07:42So I'm going to move on to the next. If we can go back to the presentation, please.
07:52Now it's time also to do a little time travel with VivaTech. We're so happy to be back for the
07:5910th year of VivaTech because actually the proof of concept of this idea to bring a place somewhere else was
08:08invented here in 2017 when we brought the Chambord Castle in Paris, in VivaTech, and that was the proof of
08:16concept of what we do today.
08:19In 2021, we had the opportunity to do a D-Day exhibition at the National Museum of the US Air
08:27Force, and there for six months, we were able to welcome visitors and to let them enjoy what happened in
08:35Normandy with an experience that we developed in partnership with the Museum of Sainte Mer Eglise.
08:43So now we were able to export our heritage, export our museums abroad with this format of traveling exhibition.
08:52For the past years, we had Notre Dame de Paris visiting the world, 15 different countries, 19 cities, Asia, Australia,
09:04America, Europe.
09:05So you can see the round and reaching one million visitors that gave us the average rank of 4.8
09:14out of five, which tells you about the satisfaction they felt about this experience.
09:20And let me share with you one of our videos from Shanghai that L'Oréal, our godfather for this project,
09:30did with us.
09:31If we can play the video.
09:38If you press.
09:41Yes, if we can play the video.
11:14Thank you. So this world tour, thanks to Le Groupe L'Oréal, was able to demonstrate that this format of
11:25the augmented visit experience can speak to any culture, any age, any language.
11:30And today, we are developing the American Revolution for its American tour. And at the same time, we continue to
11:40bring these augmented experiences in all these different locations that are mostly in Europe, except for the Alamo in Texas.
11:48And we look forward to equipping more partners with new projects and new formats that are also going out of
11:56the tablet, so to speak, with an online version of it and with a VR version of it.
12:03As soon as you have a digital world, it's possible to adapt it to all the different types of screens
12:10and displays there is.
12:13So I will conclude by saying that soon we hope to let you also encounter historical characters together with Ask
12:21Mona.
12:22We want to develop a new feature that will help you in the visit, talk to George Washington, ask him
12:29questions, and get his validated answers.
12:33VoilĂ . Thank you very much.
12:36Thank you, Bruno. Thank you, Quentin. Thank you so much.
12:44If you have some questions, you can come to see them right after.
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