Newspaper Experiments With Virtual Reality in Remote Iowa ~ 101feeds

Here are two words that don’t seem to cohere: newspaper and virtual reality.

Yet The Des Moines Register has completed a virtual reality project called Harvest of Change that uses today’s technology to explore an old-word place, a virtual tour of — strangely enough — an Iowa farm

And the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is the best way to experience the project, according to Gannett, the Register's parent company.

The landscape is the Dammann farm in southwest Iowa, which includes a family’s more-than-a-century-old farmhouse, an assortment barns, machinery and a few animated animals. It's not exactly the most exotic location, but there's a reason for that. Read more...

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