10 Facts About Today
#17 - Virtual Vacation | March 30, 2020
Episode Summary
Being that most of the world is social distancing, we thought a virtual vacation would help. Here are 10 fun things you can explore from the comfort of your home.
Episode Notes
March 30, 2020 - 10 Facts About Virtual Vacations
Today is National Virtual Vacation day.
Here are 10 cyber facts about virtual vacations that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know:
- You can go to a national park
- Google Earth you can actually “walk” through the parks and their trails and see all the big spots.
- According to USnews.com these are the top 5 parks, and they are all on google earth:
- Yellowstone
- Yosemite
- Glacier
- Grand Canyon
- Zion
- You can take a trip to the Zoo
- Pandas, elephants, Penguins, Polar bears, koalas, giraffes, tigers
- Sharks, stingrays, otters, sea turtles
- Some of the best zoos and aquariums in the country have live streams of their exhibits:
- San Diego Zoo
- Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Smithsonian’s National Zoo
- Houston Zoo
- Atlanta Zoo
- You can check out a museum
- You can get virtual tours of amazing museums around the world
- Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
- The Guggenheim Museum
- ‘Travel’ to Japan and check out the Tokyo National Museum
- The Louvre
- Museum of Modern Art
- You can go see a stage show
- BroadwayHD.com
- This one is a subscription service, but there is a 7-day free trial
- Metropolitan Opera
- Thanks to donors, this one is free
- A different live show every night, and the show’s available for 24 hours until the next one is released
- On Roku, AppleTV, amazon devices, samsung smart tvs
- You can take a family vacation to Disney
- Youtube channel “Virtual Disney World”
- 360° videos of all the Disney World Rides
- It came out a couple years ago so it even includes some older rides that have closed
- The great movie ride
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYyJUEtYv-ZW7BgjhP3UbTg
- You can go to Rome
- On the Colosseum’s website you can take tours of:
- The colosseum
- The Roman Forum
- The Pantheon
- https://www.il-colosseo.it/
- You can visit NASA
- Langley Research Center and Glenn Research center are offering free online tours.
- If you download the Space Center Houston’s app, you can even interact with some experiences in AR
- https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-at-home-virtual-tours-and-augmented-reality
- Explore Machu Picchu in Peru
- They have 360° views of the Inca settlement ruins
- There is a narrating tour guide you can choose to listen to
- You can check out all the popular viewing sites
- https://www.youvisit.com/tour/machupicchu?pl=f
- You can get a VR tour or Tokyo
- https://youtu.be/OR_Y7vj66PU
- You can either use a headset and get 360° views or
- You can watch in 2D, which is still pretty cool
- You can go to Mars
- Google and NASA partnered to collect photos from the Curiosity Rover
- They modeled a replica of the Martian surface, and you can explore Mars in 360°
- https://accessmars.withgoogle.com/#