Virtual reality adds to tourism through touch, smell and real people’s experiences

Mar 11, 2019

People try a VR Cinema simulator at a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand September 20, 2018. REUTERS/Jorge Silva - RC1894F92770

Would you take a VR tour? Image: REUTERS/Jorge Silva

Erik Malcolm Champion

UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualisation, , Curtin University

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