The BBC’s first Oculus VR production is about the Mediterranean refugee crisis
Dec14
Today, the BBC released We Wait – the corporation’s first VR experience for the Oculus platform. The film depicts the harrowing and often perilous journey undertaken by Syrian refugees, as they cross the Mediterranean to get to Europe in search of a better life. Based on interviews with migrants and refugees who have taken the same trip, the dramatized experience begins on the beaches of Turkey, and from there you travel onwards to Greece on a smuggler’s boat. According to figures from the International Organization for Migration, the same journey was taken by almost 130,000 people in the first three months of…
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