Cahokia AR Tour

Cahokia AR Tour is an education app for people who want an on-site guide to the Cahokia mounds rather than a textbook chapter. By our assessment, its best feature is the AR layer, because it can place historical interpretation onto a real visit and make the landscape easier to read. That is a strong fit for a place-based tour app: the visitor gets context right where the ruins and earthworks are, instead of after the fact. The limit is that it depends on being there, and AR can never replace the site itself or a deeper history lesson. In practice, this kind of app asks for a phone in hand, some attention, and a willingness to look at the grounds through the screen. Cahokia AR Tour sits above a plain audio guide and below a full museum visit, with the phone doing the explaining as you walk.