Reviving the ancient art of 'pot casting'

A virtual reality project of UNESCO, supported by Chinese tech giant Tencent, aims to promote traditional Chinese games.

At upscale parties during ancient China's Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC), the host would often invite his guests to a game of "pot casting" where, between drinks and ad-libbed lines of poetry, they would take turns to try and throw arrows by hand into a long-necked pot from afar.

By the end of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), this traditional Chinese game that had been popular for around 2,000 years had all but disappeared from existence. To revive this lost art, a team of six students from the Communication University of China have reinvented this ancient game of artistry and precision using virtual reality.