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VR City Tours | #28: Paris, France 🇫🇷

Description

A special VR City Tours episode showing life in the moments before Paris, France shutdown for a lockdown on 17/03/2020 because of the Coronavirus/COVID-19. Scenes from some of not just the city’s most famous locations but some of the world’s most famous locations – all virtually made into a ghost town or in the midst of last-minute rushing to return indoors for the #confinement.

What Works Well

This video brings the viewer right up to where many stand during the coronavirus self-isolation protocols sweeping the globe and provides a city tour at an unprecedented time in world history.

Discipline

  • Architecture & Environmental Design
  • Social Sciences

Keywords

arc de triomphe, coronavirus, eiffel tower, france, louvre, museum, pandemic, paris, urbanism, tourism

Source

Andy Kay

Level of Guidance

What does this mean?

The Level of Guidance indicates how much the creator has imbued the video with a sense of at what the viewer should be looking.

For instance, a Level 1 video would mean that the camera has been left in place while life happens around it, allowing you, as the viewer, to simply observe. A Level 2 video might incorporate subtle visual, textual or audible hints or simple transitions. A Level 3 video would rely on a handful of hints and transition. A Level 4 video would employ multiple hints and dialogue. And a Level 5 video would rely on all of the above as well as a narrative arc that pushes the viewer forward.

Another way of looking at this would be how much production went into the video if you are considering making one of your own like it.

Location

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Paris City Tour QR code