The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

A Unity3D-based VR/AR reconstruction of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

• Project overview
• Script for AR walking tour by author & SF historian Gary Kamiya
• Will enable VR walk-through of this historic April 14 1906 film: "A Walk Down Market Street"
• "1906 San Francisco earthquake" on Wikipedia
• Built with Blender and SketchUp architectural models of actual buildings
• Using Unity XR Plug-in framework and Universal Render Pipeline
• Will include animations and sound FX for earthquake event at 5:12am on April 18, 1906
• Will enable TimeWalk.org "time travel": view Market Street in 1906 and 2020
• See Open-source project priorities on Github here: https://github.com/TimeWalkOrg/san-francisco-ca-earthquake/projects/1

Screenshot of pre-Alpha version (work in progress):

Youtube 4K video of 1906 film "A Walk Down Market Street" - Market Street approaching 3rd St. (click to view):

SketchUp model examples: