GANGWON-DO < invest Korea

On June 19, Samcheok City revealed it will apply virtual reality (VR) to promote the city's tourist destinations at various domestic and international trade fairs for tourism.

Up to now, VR is mainly commercialized in the gaming industry, thus the use of VR by a local government to for promotional purposes in the tourism industry is a new undertaking.

The city will test its new VR contents to promote 3 representative tourist destinations in the city; Daegeumgul Cave, Marine Cable Car and Ocean Railbike.

The contents will include real-world VR experiential contents, videos for Facebook and YouTube as well as contents for head mounted displays (HMDs) that will be used for the city's website and promotional booths in the future.

Following the completion of the contents in August, the city will feature a VR tour of Samcheok at its promotional booths.

newsenv@newsis.com

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Source: Newsis (June 19, 2018)

** This article was translated from Korean.