Walking Tours for Time Travelers

ERNSTHAFT!!??? Das schlechteste VR Erlebnis aller Zeiten. Ich fragte den Guide am Ende, warum die Qualität so schlecht war. Er war direkt angegriffen und konterte mit, das ganze hat uns 200.000€ gekostet, finde einen der es besser macht. Daraufhin habe ich gelacht und gesagt, dass ich in einem Tag jemanden finden kann, der das ganze besser und billiger macht. Einfach abgezogen worden und nun selber abziehen. 40€ für ein Ticket? Da kannst du dir eine Handy-VR Halterung um 20€ bestellen, dass Handy einstecken und ULALA :O ein viel besseres Erlebnis. Der Graphikdesigner hat euch verarscht!

Booked the tour as a family - a total of 8 people, from young to “old” - and everyone loved it. You get a nearly two-hour educational tour of parts of Vienna's city center - the VR glasses around your neck, the cable headset connected to your glasses. The audio guide, a very pleasant young lady's voice, provides interesting information about buildings and the history of Vienna. Of course, you're not on your own. We were accompanied by an extremely courteous young lady who was mistress of technology. At a total of 6 points of the tour, you take a short break, put on your glasses and watch a video sequence lasting several minutes from exactly this angle. In this 360-degree video it is possible to look around by turning your head in all directions of the scenery. You can't expect an Ultra HD Hollywood cinema experience with these videos, though, that would be a bit too much of a good thing and technically probably only feasible with massive financial effort. The video quality is best described as "good console/computer video game quality". Oh, yeah. Each of the 6 videos shows a different era of Viennese history. Not only recommended for tourists, also for Viennese:innen.:-)

It is a mystery to me why this tour receives so many positive reviews. Let me describe my experiences. During a leisurely walk through Vienna, I noticed a group of people standing around wearing VR glasses. Having become curious, I came across VR-Tours Vienna and booked a tour for 69 euros for two people. In Johannesgasse, we were handed out the glasses and headphones, and off we went. The audio guide was quite informative – a little light in the darkness. Our first VR station was St. Stephen's Cathedral Square. After putting on the glasses, we were immediately transferred to Vienna in the 15th century. ==References== I initially thought I had set the glasses wrong, because the image was so blurred that I felt trapped in an old computer game from 1980. The Avatar characters moved so stiffly that I almost expected RoboCop to turn a corner at any moment. The other stops about wars, pestilence, Empress Sisi and an event in front of the State Opera were not much better. Sisi looked so bad that I wasn't sure if she had just escaped from a bad horror movie or a failed graphic demo. After a while I could only amuse myself with the disastrous quality. The audio guide, on the other hand, maintained the level – at least something that didn't seem like a relic from the 8-bit era. I can't recommend this tour unless you're nostalgic and have a taste for video games that seem like a relic from the 8-bit era.