Virtual tourism

Imagine one weekend getting together with friends and family for a tour of Beijing. Instead of an expensive and time consuming jet trip, you gather at a local hall, walk through a portal together and are greeted by your tour guide, who walks you around the city to see several highlights including the Lama Temple and the Forbidden City.

At lunch time you eat a delicious Chinese banquet together and in the afternoon are entertained by a concert. By late afternoon you are done your brief visit, and walk back through the portal, returning home in time for dinner.

This is not an incredible science fiction adventure but a real possibility today created using “hybrid reality” - a combination of virtual reality (the city tour) and local events (food and concert) that provide one educational and entertaining experience that you can share with friends and colleagues.

Virtual tourism offers new and affordable possibilities for memorable experiences with friends and family

In an age where air travel is expensive and polluting and often physically beyond the capabilities of aging relatives, virtual tourism offers new and affordable possibilities for memorable experiences with friends and family.

Virtual tourism even allows travel to places impossible to reach otherwise - the Orion nebula, Mars, the bottom of the ocean, inside a Van Gogh painting, or even 3D representations of mathematical objects: anything that we can imagine.

For the last year I’ve been developing a Virtual Starship to take people on journeys around the Milky Way and now I’ve extended that to the Nabu Arts and Science Complex - a virtual and infinitely extendable tourist destination that is both entertaining and educational.

the Nabu Arts and Science Complex - a virtual and infinitely extendable tourist destination

When the Nabu Complex is launched it will allow you to gather with friends and family to visit a Van Gogh art gallery, a mathematics cafe based on the research of geometer Donald Coxeter as well as the Virtual Starship.

Even better, the Nabu Complex includes a variety of tools that will make it easier for me to develop new multiuser virtual experiences for arts and science in the future, making the complex infinitely expandable.

I’ll be available on contract to add displays that showcase new educational endeavours.

The Nabu Complex provides virtual meeting space and presentation tools for public events and private meetings. There are three types of rooms - a board room for about 10 people, a lecture hall for about 25 people, and a virtual auditorium for about 80 people.

The spaces are there now - I am currently in discussion with companies to provide the networking support for larger groups.

People who have already purchased my Virtual Starship will get the Nabu Arts and Science Complex for free. I am currently looking for funders to support the project and make it as successful as possible.

If you would like to contact me about the Nabu Arts and Science Complex, you can reach me here .