VISIT GREAT PLACES
There are two types of great place. One is a place with special memories, for example the place you went your holidays when a child. Another great place is a place that everyone agrees is great, for example Vienna or the Great Wall of China. Great places are very important not only themselves but for their beneficial effect on how you feel.
The word psychogeography is not used very often but there are a small number of researchers deeply engaged in studying the relationship between place and feeling, between geography and psychology and there is no doubt that places can have a beneficial, or depressing, effect on how you feel. This is the reason that people travel of course but a special challenge is for people who find travelling difficult or impossible and for this reason we are planning or developing a wide range of visits to great places.
One particularly exciting development is that by using the internet and virtual reality you can not only get a really good sense of what it is like to walk across a bridge in Venice or walk along the Great Wall of China but you can also share that experience with friends who are tens or hundreds or thousands of miles away. The friends can be talking with you talking about some aspect of the environment or looking in the same shop window.
For the other type of great place there are also important new opportunities. Imagine you want to revisit a place you went to on holiday as a child, a farm in the hills of Scotland for example. It has is no tourist agency going to make a commercial film of it for you to enjoy through virtual reality but you could ask a daughter, grandson or niece or nephew to visit that place wearing a special camera and this could be turned into a virtual reality programme of relevance only to you and to the people who lived in that farm of times past but it would be a great experience.
There are two types of great place. One is a place with special memories, for example the place you went your holidays when a child. Another great place is a place that everyone agrees is great, for example Vienna or the Great Wall of China. Great places are very important not only themselves but for their beneficial effect on how you feel.
The word psychogeography is not used very often but there are a small number of researchers deeply engaged in studying the relationship between place and feeling, between geography and psychology and there is no doubt that places can have a beneficial, or depressing, effect on how you feel. This is the reason that people travel of course but a special challenge is for people who find travelling difficult or impossible and for this reason we are planning or developing a wide range of visits to great places.
One particularly exciting development is that by using the internet and virtual reality you can not only get a really good sense of what it is like to walk across a bridge in Venice or walk along the Great Wall of China but you can also share that experience with friends who are tens or hundreds or thousands of miles away. The friends can be talking with you talking about some aspect of the environment or looking in the same shop window.
For the other type of great place there are also important new opportunities. Imagine you want to revisit a place you went to on holiday as a child, a farm in the hills of Scotland for example. It has is no tourist agency going to make a commercial film of it for you to enjoy through virtual reality but you could ask a daughter, grandson or niece or nephew to visit that place wearing a special camera and this could be turned into a virtual reality programme of relevance only to you and to the people who lived in that farm of times past but it would be a great experience.