Enhancing Travel Experience Using Virtual Reality

Abstract

Virtual Reality (VR) has enjoyed a noteworthy rise of enthusiasm from researchers and organizations generally but also specially from the travel industry. Be that as it may, subjective research on tourists understanding of VR applications is rare. Travel/Tourism and Virtual Reality (VR) area optimal match.VR’s aim is to enable users to virtually travel to a desired location before their actual travel. VR is a pleasant review of potential outings, and an extraordinary advertising way for organizations in  the travel industry space. The purpose of this study is to investigate tourists understanding of VR. This paper proposes to build a virtual environment that permits clients to appreciate travel understanding of their ideal destination. This includes an application that utilises the Unity 3D platform for virtual app creation, GoogleVR SDK support for virtual reality experience and APIs for various purposes. Presenting  application via VRwas found to play a great role in impressing potential guests who get drenched in the story without being there.Many existing VR apps either have information of a desired location or background sound. This paper incorporates both. Further studies must be made to incorporate haptic responses with VR that will help stimulate all five senses and in turn provide an overall travel experience.

Keywords:Virtual Reality, Tourism, User Experience, Planning.