Obamas Show Off White House in Virtual Reality

With but one calendar week to get before he leaves office, President Obama is giving citizens a look within the White House like never before. The President and First Lady teamed up with Facebook'south Oculus to film a bout of the place they take chosen domicile for the past eight years in virtual reality (VR). The tour, dubbed "The People's House: Inside the White Firm with Barack and Michelle Obama," launched today as a 360-degree video on Facebook and Oculus Video for the Oculus Rift and Gear VR.

Check it out below.

If you're watching on your mobile device, just move your handset up, downward, and all effectually to check out 1600 Pennsylvania Artery from all angles every bit the Obamas tell you lot about the place. You can as well put in your headphones to hear '360 audio' in all directions. If you watch on your desktop, you tin click and drag your mouse to get a better look around.

The tour is only over 8-minutes long, but a "longer, even more immersive VR version" is slated to arrive for Oculus Rift and Gear VR soon, the Oculus squad added.

"Michelle and I always joke, nosotros're just renters here ... the owners are the American people and all those invested in creating this amazing place with and so much history," Obama said in the motion-picture show. "What we want to exercise is make sure that everybody felt they had admission to information technology ... that as many people equally possible could come in and appreciate the place where Lincoln or FDR or Reagan had fabricated decisions that helped to shape America."

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Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's good on fettle and smart dwelling house products. Teaching yoga for about 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more than. Angela besides tests smart dwelling devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to name a few.