January 23, 2021
Payal Dhar
THE WASHINGTON POST – Social distancing and travel are two things, much like Kipling’s East and West, that you would imagine would never meet. Then the coronavirus made it clear that the tourism industry needed strategies to survive beyond the pandemic. Thus, we can now wander virtual galleries and museums, take off on digital safaris, and experience remote guided tours. Even university researchers have been taking an interest in the matter – consider this Cornell University project to re-sample photos of renowned landmarks into 4-D glory.
But there is another way to be transported to new worlds and challenged in mind and, sometimes, body. We are talking about gaming.