While most people are excited that the first proper consumer HMDs are finally hitting the markets, it was easy to forget that they are – as the name implies – mainly meant to be for the final consumers. At least we have always applied the thinking that they might as…
This time we are not presenting you a new VR travel related app or any new developments regarding VR and tourism. This time we traveled for the purpose of VR. We went to Vienna to visit vrei – the first Virtual Reality lounge in Austria. There we met Florian Sam and…
Virtual Reality is developing at such a fast pace – the technology behind, available apps and content, different congresses and fairs are evolving as well as the application in various industries is expanding. This comes along with the emergence of new jobs. As we are based in Austria, we checked out the…
The Central Missouri Honor Flight is offering a VR service called Honor Everywhere 360. They are a charity that aids terminally ill veterans in attending their memorials in Washington DC. This new service they are offering now enables even the veterans that are physically unable to travel to visit the memorials.…
It is not too late to be the one. The VR market is still developing, but with an incredible strength. There are constantly new players and new opportunities for the tourism industry. Huawei is a multinational organization working in 172 countries all over the world. It is serving almost one…
While we are seeing more and more content being produced exclusively for VR, most use for that content is to be consumed at home or at trade shows. Now, this might be changing, as VR is increasingly used in guerilla-marketing. One of the first uses of VR as guerilla-marketing that…
While we are not yet involved with the creation of videos, we would like to share this video curated by the people at Virtuality about the radical change of the travel industry caused by VR. We believe it sums up the many opportunities VR offers to service providers to enable a…
While we previously argued that the exploration of senses is not yet advanced for all of our senses, there have been some attempts in development trying to improve the implementation of senses in VR. With the consumer HMDs that have been released in the past weeks, the only senses strongly stimulated…
“Seeing the world is a powerful thing.” Expedia.com launched a campaign with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to make travel and seeing the world also available to those who cannot. The Dream Adventures initiative made it possible for four children who suffer from cancer to travel virtually to their dream…
While the use of VR in destinations and with airlines was definitely most prominent, there were other tourism stakeholders using VR/AR as well. There were several tourism technology providers that presented their VR contents, such as DiginetMedia or the Virtual Travel Lounge (VTL360). Both of these companies presented themselves as producers and distributors of…