‘There was a city’ – VR tour peers into Hiroshima’s past

Glimpse of history: Yamaguchi demonstrating how to use a VR headset during his tour in Hiroshima. — AFP

Hiroshima: On a sunny street in Hiroshima, a tourist looks around but instead of seeing a bustling riverside, they face a scene of horror, with burning bodies and rising flames.

What they are seeing is part of a virtual reality tour that allows people to experience the city as it was before, during and after the atomic bomb attack on Aug 6, 1945.