The use of virtual reality headsets is constantly growing. Although its best-known use remains in the context of entertainment and video games , virtual reality is gaining ground.
In the medical sector , for example, virtual reality therapeutic tool in many cases. We find this tool, for example, in the treatment of phobias , to relieve psychological disorders and/or care linked to an operation, during an epidural, etc.
Today, a playground is becoming major for virtual reality: travel . Between the health crisis, the desire to reduce one's carbon footprint, or even to compensate for the inability to travel, virtual immersions , via a headset, are increasingly widespread.
Traditional EPHAD travel agencies , we will do a little overview of different ways of traveling with virtual reality . The list, as often with virtual reality, is of course not exhaustive!
How does the tourism industry rely on virtual reality?
Virtual reality is a huge asset business perspective for tourism agencies . Indeed, different uses of this new technology can help the economic recovery of a sector that has already experienced two complicated years.
Firstly, virtual reality can serve as real-size advertising Indeed, with their eyes immersed in a virtual reality headset , the customer can get a first idea of their perhaps future destination. Imagine yourself hesitating between a trip to India or the discovery of Brazil . Put on a virtual reality headset and teleport yourself using a short 360° video to the heart of New Delhi or Rio !
In total immersion , you will be able to better choose the city you want to visit.
Then, hotels and travel agencies can benefit from this marketing of virtual reality . Indeed, to present its premises, its rooms, or even its activities, a hotel can use 360 videos in virtual reality headsets. Likewise, airlines may offer headsets as entertainment during the flight to your destination.
Finally, you can also use virtual reality headsets during tourist visits . See how the place has evolved, see a monument that was once present and is now destroyed, see a monument that is temporarily inaccessible, etc. All this helps create the most complete visiting experience possible for tourists.
Emotion and feelings count a lot in the decision to undertake a trip, any immersion offered by virtual reality can be a way to tip the scales in favor of a trip.
Traveling in an EHPAD, thanks to virtual reality.
EHPAD activities play an important role in the lives of residents. If more “classic” activities, such as painting workshops or cooking classes, have a certain success, other workshops more linked to new technologies are appearing.
Indeed, a new type of animation in EHPAD is emerging, thanks to virtual reality . From now on, it is possible to offer residents of an EHPAD the opportunity to travel, teleport , create new memories and new topics of conversation , via a virtual reality headset .
Accompanied by a trainer, with helmets on, seniors discover or rediscover the beautiful valleys of the French mountains and the western coastlines . Some of them even had the luxury of traveling to India! To the delight of supervisors and residents.
But what are the benefits?
effects and benefits on seniors benefiting from this EHPAD animation. First, the virtual journey allows them to escape for a few moments but also, to find an impression of greater mobility . In a second step this animation allows them to travel to destinations which are unknown to them , or to rediscover landscapes where their bodies no longer allows them to go. Then, thanks to the instructions of supervisors, this animation can prove to be a very good exercise to work on coordination , for example. Finally, in a way, this can help reconnect seniors with new technologies . But, above all, this allows them to reconnect with their memories , evoking their past trips or their childhood .
Whether it is travel agencies , hotels , airlines , or EHPADs , travel via virtual reality is becoming more present every day. marketing point of view , it is a new ally for the travel industry . The latter has here an additional promotional tool.
Of course, we have stopped here at terrestrial travel, but space travel via virtual reality is also an exciting field of research. Not all of us will have the opportunity to travel in space . But, with virtual reality , touching the stars is no longer a dream, it has become reality.
