Gujarat Tourism Opportunity, a joint venture between Tourism Corporation of Gujarat and development finance company Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS), is making a 360-degree immersive live action virtual reality (VR) videos of these three locations, for use at tourism expos. He said the twominute long videos would be played using VR-enabled headsets. About a year ago, the Madhya Pradesh tourism department had carried out a pilot project when it got Indore-based TM Store to create 360-degree virtual reality films for two locales, which it planned to use at exhibitions. "Virtual reality is still to be seen as a mass solution. Using VR technology to promote tourism is rapidly gaining popularity world over, but cost remains an issue.

Source: Economic Times September 08, 2016 03:56 UTC