# Nantucket VR rooms and island-wide tourist AR Two products, one identity package. **VR is a room.** **AR is a walk.** Do not stream a live MetaHuman across 48 square miles in July sun. Existing commercial GPS audio tours already cover Atheneum → Meeting House → Vestal. Earn the install by being sourced, labeled, and tied to the season-one figure — not by adding another narration layer. --- ## 1. VR (stay inside) Quest-class, seated + teleport, 1:1 scale. Build three rooms over two years. Each room is a *dated scene*, not an open island. | Room | Year of scene | Who speaks | Where it lives physically | |---|---|---|---| | **Vestal roof walk** | 1 Oct 1847 | Mitchell | MMA / off-site Quest loan at Hinchman or Atheneum | | **Whaleship cabin** | 1848–53 or 1853–56 | Veeder or Brock | Whaling Museum education space | | **Meeting House interior** | 1845 petition week | Retrieval Boston + Ross text as document, not generated Ross | MAAH only | Optional later: Atheneum stacks (librarian day); Essex whaleboat is a trauma-gated after-hours room, not a tourist default. Performance: UE Optimized MetaHuman, baked monologue + live Q&A only on a known Wi-Fi SSID. Offline = monologue + look-around. Do not VR the whole harbor. Tucker’s Roofwalk already has the view; VR cannot beat it. --- ## 2. Island AR — what tourists actually carry **Tier A (ship year one):** billboard / USDZ carded figure or object + 60–90 seconds of authored audio + captions. GPS + image target. Works on mid-range phones in glare. **Tier B (staff iPad / member loan only):** anchored fuller body. Do not promise this to every ferry passenger. One app or WebAR wrapper. Five loops, not fifty pins. Each pin: date, source line, “this is an interpretation,” deep-link into the booked kiosk if they want Q&A. ### Loop A — Downtown core (walk, 45–70 min) Matches the existing Core District / NHA map. | Stop | Pin | Content (season 1) | |---|---|---| | Whaling Museum, 13 Broad | Orient | Map of loops. No Essex gore here. | | Straight Wharf | Harbor departures | Clerk: what a 1840s departure looked like. Not a captain AI. | | Compass Rose mural | Wayfinding | Visual only + one sourced line on Valparaíso / *Essex* rescue geography — beat 3 voice. | | Atheneum, 1 India | Mitchell librarian | 90-sec day-job. Great Hall plaque for 11 Aug 1841 Douglass as **scene**, not Douglass-mind. | | Pacific National Bank, Main | William Mitchell’s station | Father/daughter observing. Thin. | | Centre / “Petticoat Row” | Dated post-1860 | Correction card + directory names. No 1740 shopkeeper ghost. | | Fair Street Meeting / NHA library | Mott / Quaker | Hicksite visit pin if Mott chapter is live; else architecture only. | ### Loop B — Vestal cluster (walk or Wave + walk, 30–45 min) The Mitchell product. | Stop | Pin | |---|---| | 1 Vestal, Mitchell House | Billboard of 1840s Maria; house hours | | Yard / roof mark | Comet-night AR postcard — the only full-body AR in year one | | Vestal Observatory / Study | Object: Clark. Label: successor building, 1908 | | Old Gaol, 15R Vestal | Optional civic pin, no character | | Loines, 59 Milk Ext | Night “look up” — modern MMA clerk, not Maria | | Prospect Hill | Quiet burial card. No voice from the ground | ### Loop C — New Guinea (walk, 25–40 min) Only with MAAH. | Stop | Pin | |---|---| | Seneca Boston house, York St | Family/place card. No invented Absalom face | | African Meeting House, 29 York | Petition document AR (Ross text on the page) | | Five Corners / mill area | Geography of New Guinea, not a tour-bus script | ### Loop D — Water and mills (bike / Wave, 60–90 min) | Stop | Pin | |---|---| | Brant Point Light | Harbor entrance; no character required | | Old Mill, 50 Prospect | 1746 machine as object lesson | | Oldest House, 16 Sunset Hill | 1686 fabric; Starbuck-era card if that brief is live | | Hadwen House | Wealth after oil; not a talking Hadwen | ### Loop E — Far island (bike paths, ~35 miles of sidepath) Sconset, Sankaty Head, Madaket, Great Point, Sanford Farm, Shipwreck & Lifesaving Museum, Bartlett’s Farm. **No live historical mind out here in year one.** Landscape + one lifesaving or wreck card at the Shipwreck Museum if they want it. Battery, glare, and private-property pins will kill a hero mesh on the moors. --- ## 3. How the tourist day should feel 1. Ferry / Visitor Services, 25 Federal — download / WebAR, loop map, cutoff sentence. 2. Downtown Loop A on foot. 3. Optional booked kiosk (Atheneum or Vestal) for real Q&A. 4. Evening Loines or Study if MMA is open. 5. Next day: Loop B or C, not both stuffed into one afternoon. Push-to-talk only at kiosks. Street AR is listen-and-look. Cobblestones + summer crowds + a talking full-body in the middle of Main is a blockage and a parody. --- ## 4. Technical constraints on this island - Cellular mid-island and in some lanes is uneven; cache Loop A–C on first launch. - Fog and noon glare: high-contrast captions, no thin gold type. - Historic-district taste: no floating chrome UI on Main. - NRTA Wave + sidepaths for Loops D–E; GPS drift near the harbor. - Image targets on plaques beat raw GPS at Atheneum / Meeting House / Vestal. - Schools will need an allowlisted endpoint if any Q&A leaves the device. - Partner or ignore Drives-and-Detours-style GPS audio; do not clone it. --- ## 5. What not to pin - Maushop / “last Wampanoag” first person - Talking Douglass - Essex cannibalism on a restaurant wall - Macy’s-founder mascot - A pin on every Grey Lady plaque until the corpus exists - Live generative chat from the beach --- ## 6. Build order | Phase | Ship | |---|---| | Season 1 | VR roof + 3 AR anchors (Vestal yard, Atheneum, Pacific Bank) + downtown orient pin | | Season 1b | Gardner dual at Atheneum kiosk; Loop A Petticoat correction card | | Season 2 | Cabin VR at the museum; Loop C only after MAAH MOU | | Later | Far-island object cards; Essex after-hours VR | Year-one AR is a **postcard of Mitchell**, not a second product line. The island-wide dream is a map of honest pins that deep-link into rooms you already paid to make.