You can (virtually) hike Yosemite with President Obama

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President Obama meets park rangers in Yosemite
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Come August, the White House will release its first virtual reality video, a 360 video experience of the First Family's hike in Yosemite.

Produced by National Geographic, Facebook, Oculus, and Félix & Paul Studios, the immersive video will feature footage of the trip, plus a conversation between President Obama and Yosemite National Park Superintendent Don Neubacher. Given the involvement of the Oculus team, the virtual reality experience will likely be made for the Oculus Rift platform.

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Bonnie Kristian
Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.