It may cost millions to hitch a ride on a billionaire’s rocketship, but less than $100, 9800 yen, can give you the thrill of a moon walk, using virtual reality tools on a trek across Japan’s Tottori Sand Dunes.
The dunes, along the sea of Japan, reach heights of 50 metres and run for 16 kilometres of shoreline; they are most often visited in the daytime, but night gives them a whole different feeling, visitors say.
The night-time experience with VR and AR glasses fuses the eerie landscape of the dunes with space-exploration imagery to create its effects. Participants will experience events of the moon landings from an astronaut’s viewpoint and also take part in building a ‘moon city.’
The experience, which is being offered on a limited basis in November, will be extended if it becomes popular enough.
