Reconstruction
Reveal: The Past
A portal to the past.
Reveal: The Past turns heritage interpretation into interactive AR experiences that visitors can explore through their own device.
Great Witcombe Roman Villa
01 / Explore Reveal
Bringing stories to the places they belong.
Reveal: The Past is a mobile app that helps visitors explore historic places through interactive, location-based storytelling.
Built on our Reveal: Framework, it helps heritage organisations deepen interpretation on site and extend engagement before and after a visit. Visitors use their own device to follow guided trails, reveal spaces lost to time, relive key moments and speak naturally with figures from history.
Conversation
Ask the question that matters to you.
Characters respond dynamically to each visitor's questions, allowing curiosity to shape the encounter instead of following a fixed script.Active discovery
Participation that serves the story.
Engaging shared challenges and playful interactions make a visit memorable while respecting the significance of the site.02 / Across the visitor journey
More opportunities to engage and connect.
Reveal can build anticipation before arrival, deepen the visit itself and keep the connection going after people leave.
Preview experiences
Explore the site before setting out.
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Before the visit
Build anticipation before arrival.
Preview experiences introduce stories, create excitement and encourage visitors to share the experience with others.
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During the visit
Deepen engagement on site.
Interpretation is anchored directly into the physical space through trails, reconstructions, characters and interaction.
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After the visit
Keep the connection going.
Take-home content lets visitors continue exploring, revisit stories and share them with others long after they leave.
For heritage organisations
Your site.
Your stories.
A digital experience
built around both.
Each organisation has a dedicated presence within Reveal: The Past and a package of experiences shaped around your own stories, spaces and visitor goals.
The shared platform gives visitors a familiar starting point while every site's content, journeys and visual identity remain bespoke. Participating organisations also benefit from new features as Reveal evolves.
Built-in analytics turn visitor paths, trail completions, dwell time and engagement hotspots into useful insight. Teams can see which stories resonate, refine interpretation and make informed decisions about future content and visitor journeys.
Reveal can keep audiences connected after a visit with updates about new stories, site news and upcoming events, alongside recommendations for other places to explore.
Reveal: The Past captures analytics that show how visitors move through the site, where they spend time, which trails they complete and which stories resonate, helping you refine journeys and plan what comes next.
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Encourage visits with preview content and social sharing.
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Enhance complete, ruined or irreversibly changed places while keeping the real site at the heart of the visit.
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Understand how audiences engage with both the content and the physical site.
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Keep audiences connected after they leave, through new stories, event updates and other places to explore.
Seasonal content refresh
New reasons
to return.
Experiences can evolve throughout the year with seasonal themes, time-limited content, stories linked to the site's calendar or standalone special events.
03 / Working together
You bring the knowledge.
Together, we shape the experience.
Curators, historians and site teams remain the subject experts. We combine their knowledge with our creative and technical framework to shape accurate, engaging visitor experiences.
Your knowledge leads
Your team defines what matters: the stories, priorities and historical context that shape the experience.
We make it interactive and spatial
We turn that material into engaging digital experiences designed around the real place.
You guide every build
From the first prototype through on-site activation, regular reviews let your team guide accuracy, tone, accessibility and usability.
The process
From first conversation to launch and beyond.
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Story and site discovery
Understand audiences, priorities, existing material and key stories.
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Experience planning
Map trails, locations, interactions, content needs and visual direction.
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Site capture
Scan the space using dedicated hardware and localisation tools.
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Build and review
Develop in stages, checking accuracy, tone and usability together.
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Launch, learn and evolve
Publish within Reveal, support the launch, review analytics and feedback, then refine journeys or plan future content.
Flexible, not generic
Adapt the experience. Keep control of the story.
Reveal keeps each site's approved stories at the core while allowing their delivery to change for different audiences, access needs and moments of the visit.
Curators can add languages, adjust depth, create alternative routes or foreground new perspectives without rebuilding the experience from scratch.
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Different audiences
Shape tone and depth for families, schools, international visitors or specialists.
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Accessibility options
Support different sight, hearing, language and learning needs through audio, captions, text, translation and visual layers.
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Different journeys
Adapt routes and pacing around mobility needs, available time and visitor goals.
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Content that evolves
Add new perspectives, seasonal layers and deeper context as priorities change.
Three-minute showcase
See Reveal in motion.
The showcase is the quickest way to understand how Reveal feels in a visitor's hands - and how one platform can support engagement before, during and after a visit.
04 / The team
Built by a team experienced in interactive technology for public audiences.
Reveal is created by Yipikiyay, a digital development studio working across mobile, XR and physical installations.
Our team has created immersive public experiences for museums, heritage sites and entertainment partners. We combine storytelling, real-time technology and spatial computing to make complex digital experiences feel intuitive, engaging and grounded in place.
Start a conversation
What could Reveal do
for your site?
Talk to us about a commissioned site experience, a pilot or a funding-ready project scope.