Virtual reality app brings crisis zones closer to home


  • TECH
  • Friday, 27 Nov 2015

Game changer: RYOT COO Molly Swenson showing off the virtual reality headset used to view their productions at their offices in Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles-based news site is helping people step virtually into disaster zones with a 360

WASHINGTON: Bombed-out buildings tower overhead, and rubble is piled high in the deserted streets of Syria’s onetime economic hub Aleppo. Gunshots can be heard in the distance. 

The destruction of four years of civil war is overwhelming – and then you switch your phone off. 

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