Goodbye to travel — for now. Due to COVID-19, planes are grounded around the world and any plans to visit anywhere, here or abroad, are on pause.
During these strange days the idea of online anything is proving more attractive — and vital. Families experience first-time conference calls, while musicians around the world put on internet gigs for locked-down audiences. Travel, too, is just a tap away, thanks to virtual reality.
VR is not new. Dating back further than Nintendo’s 1995 Virtual Boy (a commercial failure), VR has mostly remained a clunky novelty until the past decade. From 2010, with the advent of Oculus and even Google’s interactive 360-degree Street View, exploring the world virtually has become more viable.