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# Colleges Use Virtual Reality For Campus Tours

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## Transcript

Check out the ceiling, paintings. And so this is all exactly how it's like. A college tour without even stepping outside. So now I'm at a beautiful courtyard at Yale. That's me wearing Oculus Rift. It's a virtual reality headset that made headlines after Facebook bought it for $ 2 billion earlier this year. Now a company called YOUVISIT is using it for virtual college tours. Do you have markers in these locations? You have a yellow marker to your left. So if you make it right in front of you, that will transfer you to the next location. Right now, it's tracking my eye movements. I'm looking down to get a gallery of places I want to visit.

And anytime I want to go somewhere. I just look at it and I'm transported. So, I'm gonna go to the stadium because I don't wanna get in the way of this young lady doing her homework. It's virtual reality aimed at making college more of a reality. Our mission from the day we started the company is making a campus visit more attainable to students. Oculus isn't widely available yet, and even when it is, most people aren't gonna have a $ 350 headset at home. But you could start seeing these devices at college fairs and recruitment events. We're not replacing the actual visit. We're making the kids more excited about doing the actual visit.

So this is what it's like to either be a cheerleader, a football player or in a band. If you're not an athlete, this might be the closest you're gonna come to the football field. We tested it out with some professional critics. Our intern goes to Syracuse. This is the Carrier Dome at Syracuse University. And it actually feels like I'm back in student center. While this looks like a cool technology, the best way to experience a school and to know if this is the place where you wanna study is to actually go and visit and meet the people. Not just look at an empty dining hall in virtual reality. But it does enable you to fly across the country from the Ivy Leagues to the Big Ten in the blink of an eye.

Like any developing technology, it's a work in progress. After wearing the headset for 15 minutes, I was dizzy and ready to finish my college tours. Whew.

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