virtual vacation tours

When you are planning a vacation or business trip, a virtual tour can provide you with better information concerning what you will experience somewhere than what you can get from a website with a few static, non-responsive pictures. Like virtual property tours, most virtually reality vacation tours are yet not completely 3D or enveloping, but increasingly they are engaging and evolving toward greater interactivity. Virtual vacation tours include tours of cruise ships, resort hotels, cities and towns, parks and scenery and other tourist attractions. For more discussion, see Sci.virtual-worlds .

Interactive contact between humans and computers based on sound is another vital part of Virtual Reality (VR). Conveniently, creating a realistic sound setting involves fewer technological challenges than artificially creating 3D pictures or realistic tactile and motion communication. A good surround-sound sound system can give high performance computer-to-human sound transferral to accompany objects and events in Virtual Reality (VR). For sophisticated uses, "aural ray tracing" may be used to recreate the effects of multiple connections between sounds and surfaces in the virtual world. The site on Virtual Tours Council Bluffs, Iowa presents more developments.

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