--- title: Life VR: White House Tour With the Obamas description: Felix & Paul Studios is giving viewers an intimate, inside look at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with the former first family. canonical: https://time.com/4782207/barack-michelle-obama-white-house-tour-virtuality-reality-lifevr/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-17T15:53:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:58:10.311Z article:section: Politics og:title: Tour the White House With the Obamas in New VR Experience og:description: Let former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle be your guides og:url: https://time.com/4782207/barack-michelle-obama-white-house-tour-virtuality-reality-lifevr/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0755c41e07bd621b/6988cd9a8fd2ee2264357151/gettyimages-675629505.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5616 og:image:height: 3159 og:image:alt: Exterior Of White House Against Sky In City og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tour the White House With the Obamas in New VR Experience twitter:description: Let former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle be your guides twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0755c41e07bd621b/6988cd9a8fd2ee2264357151/gettyimages-675629505.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Walk Through the White House With the Obamas in a New Virtual Reality Experience > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [Jodi Guglielmi / People.com](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Jodi Guglielmi / People.com Contributor May 17, 2017 3:53 PM UTC  The White House in Washington DC viewed from the south side The White House in Washington DC viewed from the south side Dan Thornberg / EyeEm—Getty Images/EyeEm by [Jodi Guglielmi / People.com](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Jodi Guglielmi / People.com Contributor May 17, 2017 3:53 PM UTC You don’t need to get a ticket to go inside the White House. [Felix & Paul Studios](https://www.felixandpaul.com/) is giving viewers an intimate, inside look at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with the former first family in the new virtual-reality experience called “The People’s House: Inside The White House with Barack and Michelle Obama.” The 360° video tour — explorable by clicking and dragging your mouse across the screen — begins in the Oval Office, with the viewer sitting face-to-face with President Obama. From there, the former president and first lady give you a personal tour of the White House. From the West Wing to the Executive and Private Residences, the Obama’s share their own personal memories of living in the White House during their eight-year stay. “The People’s House” is available exclusively on the Life VR app and [people.com/lifevr](http://people.com/movies/white-house-tour-obamas-virtual-reality/). Co-founders Felix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphaël previously told PEOPLE that when creating different virtual reality worlds, they focus on the emotional connection users have to the narrative of the story — rather than a game-like experience. “We’re trying to start from that place of more film-like immersion — experiences of presence that are more realistic,” Raphaël told PEOPLE of the inspiration behind their creations. “\[It’s\] more about how you’d feel in the real world or in a dream than when you’re in a game when you have a defined rule set.” _This_ [_article_](http://people.com/movies/white-house-tour-obamas-virtual-reality/) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://people.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4782207/barack-michelle-obama-white-house-tour-virtuality-reality-lifevr/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4782207/barack-michelle-obama-white-house-tour-virtuality-reality-lifevr/"},"headline":"Walk Through the White House With the Obamas in a New Virtual Reality Experience","datePublished":"2017-05-17T15:53:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:58:10.311Z","description":"Let former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle be your guides","url":"https://time.com/4782207/barack-michelle-obama-white-house-tour-virtuality-reality-lifevr/","keywords":["White House","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0755c41e07bd621b/6988cd9a8fd2ee2264357151/gettyimages-675629505.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jodi Guglielmi / People.com"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0755c41e07bd621b/6988cd9a8fd2ee2264357151/gettyimages-675629505.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Exterior Of White House Against Sky In City","caption":"Exterior Of White House Against Sky In City","creditText":"Dan Thornberg / EyeEm—Getty Images/EyeEm","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4782207/barack-michelle-obama-white-house-tour-virtuality-reality-lifevr/","name":"Walk Through the White House With the Obamas in a New Virtual Reality Experience"}}]}] ```