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You’ve seen virtual tours, maybe even pseudo-3D tours on Matterport with a VR headset. But how would you like to be able to move around a location with 6 degrees of freedom? Zen Universe is a VR app that will enable you to visit landmarks, walk around them and explore them in detail, and could be a preview of what virtual tours will be like in the future.
Conventional virtual tours are made with 360 photos or sometimes 360 videos. Although you can look around them in 360, what you see is flat. Virtual tours shot on stereoscopic 3D 360 photos and videos improve on that by giving you a 3D view everywhere you look but you cannot walk around them. Virtual tours such as Matterport improved on that by adding hotspots every few feet, so it looks somewhat like you are moving through a 3D space.
Zen Universe takes virtual tours a step further. Rather than using 360 photos or videos, it uses photorealistic 3D computer models. With your Oculus Rift VR headset, you’ll be able to move around freely and explore each location. The developers claim that the environments are extremely detailed and you’ll be able to inspect them closely.
Moreover, the environments have dynamic weather with rain and snow, and even have day and night with accurate lighting effects.
Zen Universe will be available on Steam VR starting May 13, and is listed as being compatible with Oculus Rift (although for some reason it’s not on the Oculus Store). And I’m not sure if it will work with Windows Mixed Reality or HTC Vive. Meanwhile, you can also check out Destinations on SteamVR, which lets you explore photogrammetric models in 6DOF. There’s also a part of Valve’s Lab VR game on Steam that lets you explore a photorealistic environment with 6 degrees of freedom.
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