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USA Today Premieres Season Two of ‘VRtually There’

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On board one of the last flights of Goodyear’s GZ-20 model blimp or hang gliding in Hawaii, you can now experience season two of USA Today’s “VRtually There” series. The first episode takes you high inside the Goodyear Blimp.

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Hands-on: VR Goes Skydiving at iFLY – The Ultimate Haptic Simulation

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They can choose between several different skydiving locations—like Dubai, Hawaii, or Switzerland—where iFly has recorded real skydives specifically for use in the iFly VR experience. After training and getting a feel for stable non-VR flying, customers don a purpose-built helmet which incorporates a Gear VR headset.

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USA Today’s VRtually There Gets A Full Second Season

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We don’t have any specific insight on the five content areas that VRtually There’s second season will focus on but, considering it mirror’s the debut episode, it stands to reason that the Hawaii hang-gliding focus on the first episode of season two means extreme sports did well with USA Today’s VR audience.

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