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VR Experience Enables Everyone To Go Down Geevor Tin Mine

Alastair — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:34:43 +0000

A visit to the the historic Geevor Tin Mine in Cornwall includes a chance to walk down into part of the tin mine itself, if you can do it under your own steam, but not everybody can – until now. A new 360-degree virtual reality tour launched today will open the mine up to a […]

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Efteling creates a Virtual Ride for Disabled Visitors

Alastair — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:28:34 +0000

Efteling – the fairytale* theme park in the south of Holland – has launched a new virtual experience on one of the park’s main attractions, the dark ride Droomvlucht, making the ride accessible to disabled visitors. To be honest, Droomvlucht (“DreamFlight”) is a little bit dated these days, but it was always one of my […]

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360° virtual tours of famous aircraft

Alastair — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 15:35:52 +0000

The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington, has been working with Microsoft to digitise the interiors of some of its aircraft. It means that visitors to the museum, and to the museum’s website, can wander through the cockpit and interiors on the Surface Pro tablets carried by the museum’s docents & volunteers, or remotely on […]

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