Thanks to new virtual
reality technology in Tourism, travelers can visit far-away places with a lots
easier and more affordable ways. The Imagine traveling of virtual reality make
it possible to see famous sites and landscapes and get the knowledge of travel
destinations in the world all from the comfort of your living room.
Virtual reality travel makes huge changes,
making tourism more accessible than ever. Walking in the great Rome Colosseum,
running on the Great Wall in china and passing the most romantic Eiffel Tower,
it create virtual experience that tourists may accept
as substitutes for real visitation to threatened sites.
Virtual tourism is already a thing now. Helmut
Havocs at the University of Vienna has developed virtual headset that allows
people to strap themselves, allowing that people to virtually visit any number
of destinations. Cameras attached to the drone let you see things from the
drone's point of view, taking you on a trip you couldn't even get if you
physically went there.
"From a flight, you could get a very
good impression of the site, things you would not normally be able to see if
you were walking through the ruins," says Antonio Gentile, founder of Inform
Amuse, one of the researchers who worked with Hlavacs on the system.
As VR technology continues to develop,
there is numbers significance of applications of VR in tourism. For instant,
recently there is a program that proposes a plan, which is combining the
virtual reality glasses with treadmill to provide the virtual view of tourism
destination. The program intends to provide travelers who are waiting in
airport and train station the service of virtual feel of the destination with
moving you body on treadmill to spend the boring waiting time. This application
of virtual reality technology created a new and excited experience of tourists
before they arrival at the destination, and keeps tourist a walking condition,
which can also train their body.
Emirates Airline Festival of Literature
showcased a new VR experience that took festivalgoers on a journey on-board an
Emirates A380 and around key A380 destinations using Oculus Rift technology
with inbuilt Google Street View. This application makes the journey of
passengers more fun and enriches the experience and enjoyment on the plane.
Virtual reality technology benefits management, marketing, entertainment, education, accessibility, and
heritage preservation in tourism. Virtual tourism benefits
those who don't have the resources, time, money or physical capabilities of
indulging in real travel. Virtual reality technology also enhance the
development of tourism and verify the form of tourism.
Yuanyuan WU
Jingyao ZHU
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