Recently updated on February 17th, 2022 at 11:31 pm
Nowadays, people enjoy to travel or have a trip to enrich their life experience. It is one of the way to make your life more meaningful or like most people say, “Live Life to the Fullest“. Some example of the locations are the popular travel destinations, museums and zoo. Unfortunately, not all of us have the luxury and opportunity to visit all their dream locations in their lifetime. Luckily, now there are virtual trips or tours that might benefit you.
Here, we will list down the top benefits and advantages of virtual tours or trips…
1) Can Visit from Anywhere
This is the main and undisputable advantage of the virtual tours where you can visit it anywhere. This kind of tour will greatly benefit those who really fascinated about these locations but stay at faraway countries.
Imagine if one day people build the colony at Mars which is located at least 54.6 million kilometers from Earth. With the virtual travel, you can visit them while you are still on Earth. No boundary on location anymore.
2) Can Visit Anytime
Whether it is rain or shine, you can still visit it anytime you want. You’ll not be bounded by the time constraint. Even if the location is closed during public holiday or after visiting hours. This kind of advantage can avoid the scenario where the field trips is cancelled last minute due to bad weather condition. Sounds familiar, isn’t it?
3) Able to Close Up
In most of the virtual trips, you can also zoom in the exhibit to be very, very close to your face so you can appreciate the details of it. In some of the safari virtual trip, you can feel like the lions or tigers just sit beside you.
4) 360 Degrees View
One of the interesting capability is that, most of them provide the virtual tour in 360 degrees view. So, you can turn around and spin around like you are really there. Not limited by only using the browser, but you also can view it using the VR format by using at least the Google Cardboard.
5) Chances for Disabled or Elderly
And, this kind of solution also will give the opportunity to the disabled or older generation people to also experience the surrounding at their dream destinations. There are real cases where some of the seniors at the retirement home enjoy the skydiving experiences using virtual reality.
6) Enrich the Learning Material
If you are a teacher, you can use this to get your students to be more involved and deepen their understanding on the subjects such as History or Geography. One of the popular application is the Google Expeditions where teachers can take their students for the virtual field trips. It will definitely make learning these subjects are more fun and meaningful to the children.
7) Spice Up Your Assignments
If you are students either in schools, colleges or universities, you can quickly go there virtually to find stuff that can help you complete your assignments. It will be very cool to embed it inside your presentation.
8) Alternative During Pandemic
During this COVID-19 pandemic event, we will be having challenges to do school or field trips to museum or zoo. Here, virtual trips will benefit us as a great alternative to fill the gap.
9) Method of Preservation
It is one of the way to preserve the exhibits in case there are events such as natural disaster, building mishaps, war etc. Hence, you can think of it like a system/data backup or DR (Disaster Recovery) activity. This is one of the benefit of the virtual tours that might be very significant to the countries.
10) Cheap & Affordable
It is a very low cost alternative to enjoy the virtual travel or tours. You just need to have a VR headset and download the apps. Some of them are paid apps but there are also the free one.
That’s all for now on the benefits of the virtual tours or travel. We will add the point from time to time.
Are you now getting excited to try virtual travelling after you read this? If you don’t have a VR headset yet, we think this is the right time for you to get it 🙂
The image above is by Erik Tanghe from Pixabay
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