![Logo BavAR[t] — plateforme de médiation culturelle en réalité augmentée](https://bavart.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/cropped-Logotype_BavARt.png)
Orbita
BavAR[t]'s 3D viewer, designed as a cultural media outlet in its own right. Orbita makes what our projects create in augmented reality accessible from a simple browser — for those whom distance or mobility keep from travelling, for cultural professionals curious to discover our work, and for every BavAR[t] app user who wants to extend the experience.
Each artwork comes with a narration or a musical creation (curator, researcher, creator, amateur, explorer…).
On Orbita (browser): explore and listen, nothing to install In the BavAR[t] app: experience the artwork in augmented reality, at home
Discover Orbita
our 3D viewer with audio narration
Orbita is live. Every week, 5 new artworks join the collection — each with a narration or a musical creation (curator, researcher, creator, amateur, explorer…). Every entry offers a complete experience right in the browser, no plugin, no download. The rest of BavAR[t]'s 150+ artworks can be found in the app.
Portrait of Amand Quelain — the zouave
Early 20th-century Breton zouave uniform, Musée de Bretagne.
The Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen
Sculpture by Edgar Degas (1881).
Escher — Impossible Perspectives
3D interpretation of the lithograph "Print Gallery" (1956).
Project: En Gare — The Nation's Recognition
Saint-Raphaël station, Indochina Wars Memorial (Fréjus) — a tribute to the French National Office for Veterans and the Pupilles de la Nation (war orphans).
Animated Book — The Adventures of the 5th-Graders of Charles de Foucauld
A project by Collège Charles de Foucauld: a student-written story turned into an immersive exhibition at the Château de Meung-sur-Loire.
Caribbean Identity — Faces and Memory
A reflection on Guadeloupean identity, shaped by colonial history, slavery and resistance.
Rotate the artwork and turn on the sound above. More models join the viewer as new projects go live.
What every artwork on Orbita includes
An artwork on Orbita is never just a visual. Every published piece brings together four elements.
Iconography, archives, photographs, 3D models.
A narration or an original musical piece that tells the artwork's story.
The artwork's context, history and provenance.
Credits and rights tied to the artwork and its institution.
Making culture more accessible
![Public domain works — BavAR[t]](https://bavart.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/3d-model-bavart-scan-art.png)
We actively share public domain works — sculptures, paintings, heritage objects whose rights have expired. Universal art, accessible to everyone, without restriction.
![Rights managed with rights holders — BavAR[t]](https://bavart.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/sorbonne-expo.jpg)
Every protected work is shared with the explicit consent of the institution or artist holding its rights. Credits are visible on every entry. Full transparency.
![Tangible and intangible culture — BavAR[t]](https://bavart.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/union-pop-women.jpg)
Culture is not limited to fine art. BavAR[t] embraces heritage in the broadest sense — objects, places, know-how, traditions, memories. Everything that makes up human identity.
Culture is a mirror of life.
So is Orbita.
BavAR[t] is not a conventional art gallery. We include everything that makes up tangible and intangible heritage — thousands of types of documents, objects, sounds and forms of knowledge can join Orbita and become an augmented reality experience.
Oils, watercolours, drawings, prints, posters, illustrations — via 3D Sheet or modelling.
Artefacts, furniture, everyday objects, tools, museum pieces — digitised through photogrammetry.
Photographic archives, postcards, historical iconographic documents — direct 3D Sheet integration.
A musical piece, a traditional song, a heritage sound linked to an image or a place — embedded in the AR experience.
Monuments, historic buildings, reconstructions of vanished sites — modelling or photogrammetry.
Letters, parchments, old maps, historical documents — integrated with their narrative context.
Excavations, artefacts, site reconstructions — on-site digitisation or modelling from survey data.
Know-how, traditions, gestures, oral accounts — linked to an image or place for AR-based mediation.
If it belongs to human heritage, we can include it.
Artworks in augmented reality
A sample of the artworks currently available in the app. Open BavAR[t], get close to the point of interest, and capture the artwork in augmented reality.
![Magritte — The Tomb of the Wrestlers, 3D model, BavAR[t]](https://bavart.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Magritte-le-tombeau-des-lutteurs-modele-3D-pour-BavARt.png)
3D interpretation of the surrealist painting, experienced in augmented reality in real space.
![La Tête à Claque, Musée des Arts Forains, BavAR[t] digitisation](https://bavart.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Musee-des-arts-forains-tete-a-claque-reconstitution-historique.png)
19th-century automaton digitised through photogrammetry, its mechanism digitally reconstructed.
High-resolution 3D scan of the baroque statue from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes.
How an artwork joins
Orbita and BavAR[t]
Whether you have 3D models or only 2D images, BavAR[t] handles the full integration into Orbita and, on request, into the app.
Your 3D models, photographs, archives or 2D images — along with the associated rights.
BavAR[t] creates the 3D asset (or integrates it via 3D Sheet for 2D content), records the audio narration, and deploys the artwork in the AR app.
The artwork is published in the Collection with its full entry — rights, credits, institution — accessible to everyone, free of charge.
Your collection deserves
to be seen in AR
Add your artworks to the BavAR[t] Collection and join the institutions sharing their heritage in augmented reality.
