We have already reported\u00a0about the opportunities Virtual Reality enables to travel back in time to experience historical events.\u00a0A new VR time travel experience, named \u201cVR Time Travel: Step into Old Hong Kong<\/em>\u201d by the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) allows visitors to step into old Hong Kong and explore the old days of the city. Visitors can re-live scenes from the 1960s and 1980s. A battle between two kung-fu fighters at the famous Hollywood Road as well as the dramatic landing of an aircraft at the Kai Tan International Airport is showcased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n VR Time Travel (photo \u00a9 sky100.com.hk)<\/p>\n\n\n\n HKTB collaborated with the VR design house\u00a0TimeLooper\u00a0and the observation deck\u00a0sky100\u00a0to provide the VR time travel experience. TimeLooper\u00a0is specialized in the creation of\u00a0Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality experiences to re-live moments that made a destination or specific site location famous.\u00a0Yigit Yigiter (CEO of TimeLooper)\u00a0said:\u00a0\u201c\u2026We were able to utilise TimeLooper\u2019s cutting-edge teleportation technology and new VR production techniques to place viewers closer to the action than ever before and as a result allow them to experience two of Hong Kong\u2019s most important historical cultural scenes in an immersive and fun manner.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The VR time travel experience is an offer visitors can pay for while visiting the sky100 observation desk. Additionally, there is the opportunity to buy VR videos or a cardboard viewer. This is another example adding to the\u00a0ongoing debate\u00a0if VR is a substitute for real travel or rather a supplement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you could travel back in time, where would you go? We have already reported\u00a0about the opportunities Virtual Reality enables to travel back in time to experience historical events.\u00a0A new VR time travel experience, named \u201cVR Time Travel: Step into Old Hong Kong\u201d by the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) allows visitors to step into<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-reality-in-tourism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-reality-in-tourism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-reality-in-tourism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-reality-in-tourism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-reality-in-tourism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-reality-in-tourism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-reality-in-tourism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-reality-in-tourism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-reality-in-tourism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtual-reality-in-tourism.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}