How To Travel Back In Time: Flyover Zone Productions and the New Baalbek Reborn

Bernie Frischer, the Founder of Flyover Zone Productions which creates virtual tours of the world’s most amazing cultural heritage sites joins Enterprise Radio.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Bernie Frischer discuss the following:

  1. Can you tell us a bit about Flyover Zone Productions and what led you start this company?
  2.  You recently launched a new (and free) virtual travel experience called Baalbek Reborn.  Can you tell us more about the experience as well as who collaborated with to create such a unique offering? 
  3.   What’s the process for those looking to download and experience the new Baalbek Reborn and other virtual tours?
  4.  How are you able to offer it to users for free?
  5. What does the future look like for Flyover Zone?

Bernard Frischer is a digital archaeologist who writes about virtual heritage, Classics, and the survival of the Classical world. He received his B.A. in Classics from Wesleyan University (CT) in 1971 and his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Heidelberg in 1975. From 1974 to 1976, he had a two-year Prix de Rome fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, where he studied Roman topography and archaeology, worked in the Fototeca Unione as a photographer and typographer, and served two summers as an assistant professor in the Academy’s summer program on Roman topography. He taught Classics at UCLA from 1976 until 2004.

In the fall of 2004, he moved to the University of Virginia, where he directed a digital humanities research center and was Professor of Art History and Classics. In 2013, he joined the Luddy School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University, where until 2021 he directed the Virtual Heritage track.

Virtual Heritage is a new field studying ways of applying the new 3D technologies to research and instruction in fields such as anthropology, art and architectural history, and conservation science.  Through his labs and with the help of many technical and scholarly collaborators, Frischer has overseen many 3D modeling projects, including “Rome Reborn,” the digital recreation of the entire city of ancient Rome within the Aurelian Walls, the “Digital Hadrian’s Villa Project,” and the “Uffizi-Indiana University 3D Digitization Project.” 

In recent years, he has founded two online, peer-reviewed journals in the field of digital archaeology. He is now co-editor-in-chief emeritus of one of them: Open Access journal Studies in Digital Heritage. He is Founder and President of Flyover Zone Productions (established in 2016), a commercial company based in Bloomington, Indiana whose mission is to commercialize products and services using 3D digital technologies & 3D modeling to present cultural heritage sites and monuments to the general public.


Website: flyoverzone.com

Social Media Links:
Facebook: facebook.com/flyoverzone
Instagram: twitter.com/flyover_zone


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