- The National Park Service and Google have teamed up to create a virtual reality experience of some of the country's greatest national parks
- Sights like Alaska’s Kenai Fjords, New Mexico’s Carlsbad Cavern, and Florida’s Dry Tortugas
- "The Hidden World's of the National Parks" 360 VR videos of the parks
- Gives viewers views that not even going to the sight in person could bring
- Can watch the videos on YouTube, but if you download Google Cardboard on your smartphone you can experience the videos in VR
- The video's are lead by park rangers and that is who leads you through the 360 experience
- Carnival Cruise Lines paired with AT&T and Samsung to allow people to experience a cruise through VR
- Samsung VR, by Oculus now allows people in 133 AT&T stores in 37 states to experience this
- developed by Carnival Corporations and its 10 cruise line brands
- luxurious Grande Lakes properties in Orlando to the Hilton Chicago and Embassy Suites in Anaheim, California many hotels already offer vitual, interactive, panoramic tours
- In some Thomas Cook travel agency locations in the U.K., Germany, and Belgium, you can strap on a VR headset and try a tour before you book
- Qantas Airlines allows you to view a VR experience of Sydney's Harbor Bridge and a cruise in Kakado National park while on the airplane
- The Buckingham Palace has become U.K's first landmark to be explored with VR (google expeditions)
- Makes stops at places like the palace’s grand staircase with stops in a few state rooms, the throne room to see where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took their wedding photos, and the picture gallery installed by King George IV that houses the Royal Art Collection
- Able to watch on Google Cardboard and YouTube
- The Queen herself has given the project approval
- Marshmellow Laser Feast, an English Design studio has created and allowed people to now visit the Grizedale Forest in Northwest England, but through a pair of animal eyes
- See the forest with different colors, talk with other animals, and move around the forest differently
- The team used CT scanning, lidar scanning, photogrammetry techniques, and a 360-degree aerial camera to create the high definition virtual world
- users don black circular helmets with tufts of green grass fastened to the front. They can then soak in the splendor of the forest as if they were one of its furry inhabitants.
Video in 360
- In hotel lobby in D.C. you walk into a booth and put on VR goggles and are teleported into another world
- For example, when put on a beach in Hawaii the booth gets warm and what you see in the headset makes you feel like you are actually there
- This machine is a combination of Oculus VR's DK2, headphones, and other 4D elements in this telephone booth type machine (fans, heat lamps, and scents)
- sponsored by Marriott Hotels
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