Case Study: City of Palmyra revives ancient heritage in photorealistic mixed reality with Hololight Stream

Bringing World Cultural Treasures Back to Life with Hololight Stream

The City of Palmyra, an ancient cultural heritage site destroyed in 2017, sought to digitally recreate its lost treasures. A developer, Zaid Zaim, created a mixed reality app to bring the city back to life but faced performance challenges. The high-polygon 3D models caused mobile XR devices like the HoloLens 2 to lag or crash, preventing a photorealistic experience. He turned to the vendor Hololight for a solution.

The solution implemented was Hololight's Hololight Stream, a remote rendering solution. This technology was integrated as a plugin, allowing the app to stream the entire experience. This enabled the high-polygon models to run on a HoloLens 2 without any performance issues, lags, or crashes. The result was a fully interactive, photorealistic app that successfully preserves the memory of Palmyra in immense detail.

City of Palmyra

Zaid Zaim

Syrian Developer and Admirer