A visa-less Virtual Reality trip

If you are bored at Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi, you can take a spontaneous journey by stepping into a lime green dome in the terminal which will instantly transport you to a place of your choice for a fraction of the cost. Experiences embody a day/evening walk-through of Venice, Italy, and of Luxor Temple, Egypt.

This is the latest VR project of QuaQua, a Hyderabad based end-to-end virtual travel platform focused on providing people with 360-degree experiences so they are more clear on a holiday destination, without any head-set. While mentioning without any headset, I want you to note that it is not a VR company, it is completely a different class.

Sandesh Reddy, the co-founder of four-year-old QuaQua, says the optics and timings for this three-year installation are apt, but the ideation has been since pre-coronavirus times. “We have been working on this since June of 2019 and we were ready to go live right before the lockdown. We were sorting out some last-minute technical issues when the lockdown hit,” he recalls. As per airport guidelines, sanitation, mask-wearing, and bodily distancing guidelines are strict. The dome, which is sanitised hourly, can maintain as much as 16 folks, however bodily distancing measures permits a most of 4 folks in, after journey expertise is chosen. What follows is a projection of 5 to seven minutes.

The content material is mostly based on suggestions and is refreshed after the duration of a month and a half. They began with two titles on launch day and now they are near 10. Now they even have child-friendly animated content material corresponding to outer area or underwater titles for actually immersive experiences.