Passchendaele virtual reality view could keep the horrors of the First … – Telegraph.co.uk

With the First World War, we have got the chance of doing something different. We can keep it fresh.

It will be interesting to see whether my kids find the First World War as distant as I find the Battle of Agincourt, or will the immediacy of it be maintained because we have got this technology.

Its about taking the images and giving it the full treatment of 2017, which is immersive which is a whole step above sitting on your bottom watching television.

These sets have primarily been used by gamers so far, but I think history has the most to gain from these.

Bill Hunt, a Chelsea Pensioner who spent 25 years in the Royal Horse Guards, on Tuesday became one of the first members of the public to try out the new films.

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