The Bombing of Hiroshima in VR
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): TrendBT
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/08/06
Japanese students are working to recreate the bombing of Hiroshima with virtual reality.
It was the time when the world went from its ultimate destructive experiments to the reality of implementation on a nation in a time of war: America dropped nuclear bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan.
Many high students, Japanese ones, are now working feverishly to produce a virtual reality experience of the moments prior to the bombing of Hiroshima. It amounts a before and after of the bombing developed and experienced in virtual reality through the hard work of Japanese students.
The work is meant to remind every one of the possibilities of human technological destructive capacities and to not let this happen anymore. It killed 140,000 people. Then there was another only three days later killing 70,000 people in Nagasaki. Within six days, Japan surrendered; thus, ending WWII, this was dramatic, pulverizing to the spirit, and raised questions to future generations about the prospects of human survival in the era of the atomic bomb.
With the virtual reality headsets, the individuals can go to businesses and buildings that once existed prior to the bombing and then see the aftermath of the atomic glow and expulsion of the living.
For the project, students did the proper study of the photographs, postcards, and even interview some of the living survivors of the bombings. The computer graphics then were matched to these various forms of informational points to recreate the experience of the pre- and post-bombing of Hiroshima with the atomic bomb.
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