Us-un Report

VR Vacations – The New Staycation?  Virtual Reality of VR has actually been around since the late 80’s. It has been frequently been used by video game companies such as Sega and Nintendo with virtual reality headsets, however the technology has recently become mainstream. In fact, it’s so popular Facebook invested $2 billion dollars in 2014 to pioneer it’s arrival into our households. Now, Samsung, HTC, Google and Sony have jumped on the bandwagon. Millennials, Generation X and Baby Boomers all agree, it’s here to stay! VR is a tool to help people learn about a destination, however it is still not real life. It’s a way of tricking your brain to think you are really somewhere else. Kind of like a vacation or a staycation. Who wouldn’t want to climb Mount Everest or visit the surface of Mars without ever leaving home? Join Tom Osborn and the radio news team of US World Report as they explore this latest trend. VR uses are expanding into education, medicine, real estate and many other areas including nursing hom