Google's New VR Tours: Buckingham Palace, Great Barrier Reef

Google has a couple new VR tours under its Expeditions Pioneer Program, a platform that enables teachers and others to introduce students to various places around the world: Buckingham Palace and the Great Barrier Reef. According to Expedition's program manager Jennifer Holland, the Great Barrier Reef experience is "designed and produced by Sir David Attenborough and Alchemy VR." In addition, and due to popular request, Google has also added a Buckingham Palace VR tour.

Google Expeditions aims to bring these places and other notable locations around the world to one's own classroom, enabling students to experience parts of the world they may never get to visit in person. Chief among the new expeditions is the Great Barrier Reef, of which Sir David Attenborough says:

The Great Barrier Reef is a wonder of the natural world and I've been fantastically privileged to visit twice, most recently for my BBC1 TV series Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough. Through virtual reality, I'm lucky enough to be able to share my experiences with audiences of all ages to allow them to explore and learn about these diverse ecosystems in a more immersive way.

Google Expeditions Pioneer Program makes VR educational

When it comes to students, though, they've made it clear they're particularly interested in a particular location: Buckingham Palace, which Google made an expedition for in conjunction with the Royal Collection Trust. If you don't have access to the Expedition program, don't worry: there's also a YouTube 360 video of the Buckingham experience for everyone to enjoy.

SOURCE: Google