Is it even close to being as real as the real thing?
“This place is wild in the truest sense of the word,” says a park ranger, one of my companions equipped with crampons and axes.“Look down,” the ranger says, providing the answer. “You are standing above a crevasse on Exit Glacier. Exit Glacier is one of the most visited parts of the park, but very few people get to come here and walk out onto the ice or venture into one of its crevasses.So I do – by clicking the icon that flashes on my computer screen. “Climb into the crevasse,” it reads.
Perhaps never before have virtual outdoors been more compelling than now, in this unprecedented period of quarantine that deprives us of far-flung adventure. The Illinois researchers concluded: “Nature exposure in virtual reality can provide emotional well-being benefits for people who cannot access the outdoors.”
“People just don’t know what this is all about,” he says. “But boy, if they had a headset at their home, they would sure see and feel the difference today.” Now he likes to say he’s taken more people for trips digitally than he ever did physically on the Colorado Plateau’s mighty rapids. It didn’t exactly work, Kemple admits. The view from phones and laptops wasn’t enough, he says. A headset would’ve been ideal.
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