These Japanese seniors can travel from the canals of Venice to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge -- without even leaving their seats.
Traveling from the canals of Venice to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, a group of elderly people inIt's all thanks to virtual reality, as well as a team at the University of Tokyo led by Kenta Toshima.
"They wanted to see even more of the places from their memories, therefore I felt that I could show them more by using virtual reality and showing them [these places] in 360," he tells CNN Travel."With VR, they can look around however they'd like to and experience the footage actively."CNN Together they are applying technology, such as VR, to support Japan's hyper-aged society while also teaching active senior citizens to film and edit 360-degree videos from their travels to give to their less mobile peers.
According to Hiyama and Toshima, the VR travel project works in conjunction with physical rehabilitation in nursing care facilities.They are hoping these virtual reality vacations can help the elderly patients with matters of the body -- and the mind.
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