Our Globe and Mail has pages and pages of coverage of "The Day the US Stood Still" and the storming of the Capital, in addition to all the political and health executives/leaders who "travelled" for vacations during the lockdown at Christmas.
There must be travel delirium taking hold as the New York Times had a few additional headlines besides the storming of the Capital - one that encourages us to think 'Travel' with 52 places to go. So I went looking for a virtual travel site.
Forbes gives me a list of virtual tours to take: so I clicked on the Guggenheim Museum in New York. It is HERE. That didn't take long to leave - the art work reminded me too much of the banana duct-taped on the wall.
Next I went to the top of the Eiffel Tower - no one up there at all - it was spooky. On to the Georgia Aquarium where all the cameras are "off-line for the night" - at 7:00am in the morning. Legoland? This is a booking site not a virtual tour site.
Yosemite Park - I look out from the top of Glacier Point and then Half Dome Summit (June 2017 as it pans the horizon. Check it out HERE as that was OK.
I am starting to wear out, as Yosemite isn't interesting for very long as a still picture coverage tour. My last stop is Boat International HERE with another article on all the virtual tours to check out - Arundel Castle, U.K. and 3 minutes of images of the Annual Tulip Festival 2020 - too short, so sad.
It is only a half hour of research and I now want the answer to my question: why are virtual tours boring?
And here it is at "Boring Virtual Tour" HERE. This is an electronic marketing site that makes house selling visually glorious. They call is 3D Matterport photography. This is the link to actually look at. Rental properties, residential real estate, customer tours of businesses.
Getting virtual tours into the realm of the interesting and out of the boring? All the advice is HERE at the nngroup.com - just think of this as soon we'll get some interesting virtual travel tours.
Isn't this a pretty house? A nice traditional British tudor style. It is located on Yates Street in St. Catharines. A surprising 'vacation' moment nearby.
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