Even in virtual reality, climbing the Matterhorn is not easy
Since last Tuesday, the Swiss Transport Museum in Lucerne has been hosting a unique virtual reality experience: simulating the ascent of the Matterhorn by making us climb a climbing wall.
A real climbing wall combined with virtual reality, and you are propelled to the Matterhorn, 5 meters from the summit, where the guide encourages you to climb up to discover a wonderful panorama.
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In terms of virtual reality, we thought we’d already seen everything, or almost. However… Tested a few days ago, “Red Bull The Edge: A Matterhorn VR Experience”, which puts us in the shoes of a mountaineer climbing the Matterhorn, has given us some health concerns as “unpublished”. Undoubtedly impressive, to say the least, it can also prove to be downright crippling, as long as you suffer from vertigo…
It is very simple, at its peak, the experiment confronts us with a vertical rock wall of 5 meters in height. By the quality of the graphic display, the wall actually looks very reliable. But this feeling is reinforced by the fact that it is already tangible, just like the jagged edges that make up it. And for good reason: instead of this cliff there is already a climbing wall, which we will already have to cross …
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