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Category: United Kingdom Travel
Visitors can fully immerse in Scotland through their mobile devices
Edinburgh, Feb 28 People across the world can now instantly walk through the prehistoric village of Skara Brae in Orkney, soar over Edinburgh Castle like a bird, journey into the depths of The Hollow Mountain of Ben Cruachan and experience the Northern Lights – all from the comfort of their own home, with the release of a new virtual reality app from VisitScotland. ScotlandVR is a virtual travel experience, and the tourist boards first step with interactive virtual map technology, that allows people wherever they are in the world, to be fully immersed in this soulful destination.
You could virtually be in Dark Sky Park with new app
The launch of a new virtual reality app from VisitScotland means that people across the globe can now experience the dark skies at Galloway Forest Park. The launch of a new virtual reality app from VisitScotland means that people across the globe can now experience the dark skies at Galloway Forest Park.
Jane Bradley: Handwriting has all but disappeared
On this day 141 years ago, an article published in the Portobello Advertiser revealed the writer’s consternation at a new-fangled invention which had recently made its way into the consciousness of citizens of the United Kingdom. “If the use of the machine becomes general, handwriting will be as completely superseded as handsewing and the value of our present elementary teaching will be much modified,” the columnist warned.