--- title: Go Inside the Amazon Rain Forest With TIME's AR Experience description: The vital Amazon rain forest is at a tipping point. Now you can be a witness to the crisis unfolding with TIME's new VR app. canonical: https://time.com/5672477/inside-amazon-rain-forest-vr-app/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-09-12T09:00:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:56:40.202Z article:section: Science og:title: Go Inside the Amazon Rain Forest With TIME's AR Experience og:description: The vital Amazon rain forest is at a tipping point. Now you can be a witness to the crisis unfolding with TIME's new VR app. og:url: https://time.com/5672477/inside-amazon-rain-forest-vr-app/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltac508309a4b2f492/698a02be09208f39e1415892/time_amazon_title-card_v01.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: time_amazon_title-card_v01 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Go Inside the Amazon Rain Forest With TIME's AR Experience twitter:description: The vital Amazon rain forest is at a tipping point. Now you can be a witness to the crisis unfolding with TIME's new VR app. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltac508309a4b2f492/698a02be09208f39e1415892/time_amazon_title-card_v01.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- # 'Inside the Amazon: The Dying Forest' AR Experience Sep 12, 2019 9:00 AM CUT  by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Sep 12, 2019 9:00 AM CUT ## Download the TIME Immersive App For centuries, the Amazon rain forest was one of the last great wildernesses on planet Earth, where isolated tribes and untold species of animals lived undisturbed by outsiders. But today the Amazon stands close to a tipping point, as rampant deforestation combines with climate change to threaten the rain forest’s very existence. Now you can be a witness to the crisis unfolding in the Amazon with TIME’s _“_Inside the Amazon: The Dying Forest” AR (augmented reality) experience. This immersive journey follows a team of journalists TIME sent deep into the Amazon. There, they met the indigenous people fighting illegal logging, the loggers cutting paths into the jungle, and the frontiersmen and women making an illicit living from the land. Guided by renowned primatologist and environmentalist [Jane Goodall](http://www.janegoodall.org "undefined"), you’ll explore tribal villages, inspect lumberyards and see for yourself how the Amazon is under threat. Our cutting-edge drone photography and 3-D photogrammetry of some of the most remote, difficult-to-reach and threatened locations takes readers deep into the disappearing Amazon in a way never seen before. “Inside the Amazon: the Dying Forest” is available for [iOS](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/time-immersive/id1457280646?mt=8 "undefined") and [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.time.timeimmersive&hl=en%5FUS&utm%5Fsource=time.com&utm%5Fcampaign=time-immersive-longform&pcampaignid=MKT-Other-global-all-co-prtnr-py-PartBadge-Mar2515-1 "undefined") devices in the [TIME Immersive app](https://time.com/longform/time-immersive-app/ "undefined"). This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. **Contact us** at .   ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5672477/inside-amazon-rain-forest-vr-app/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5672477/inside-amazon-rain-forest-vr-app/"},"headline":"'Inside the Amazon: The Dying Forest' AR Experience","datePublished":"2019-09-12T09:00:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:56:40.202Z","description":"The vital Amazon rain forest is at a tipping point. Now you can be a witness to the crisis unfolding with TIME's new VR app.","url":"https://time.com/5672477/inside-amazon-rain-forest-vr-app/","keywords":["climate change","Climate 2019"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[],"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/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5672477/inside-amazon-rain-forest-vr-app/","name":"'Inside the Amazon: The Dying Forest' AR Experience"}}]}] ```