3rd Planet unleashes 3D travel experience to the public

December 7, 2011 By Linda Fox 2 Comments

3rd Planet, a service offering virtual 3D tours of destinations, goes live this weekend with its first experience A Journey to Everest.

The company, featured on TLabs last month, has worked with the Nepal Tourism Board to create the Everest experience.

3rd Planet aims to work with destination organisations and the wider tourism industry to bring destinations to life via virtual tours with sounds to replicate a genuine experience.

3rd Planet enables travellers to navigate streets, explore buildings and learn about a destination before they go.

The company will open up the technology via its website from Saturday.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 3d, 3rd planet, destination marketing, DMO, Everest, interactive platform, Nepal Tourism, virtual travel

About Linda Fox

Linda Fox is a reporter for Tnooz. For the past six years she has worked as a freelance journalist across a range of B2B titles including Travolution, ABTA Magazine, Travelmole and the Business Travel Magazine.

In this time she has also undertaken corporate projects for a number of high profile travel technology, travel management and research companies.

Prior to her freelance career she covered hotels and technology news for Travel Trade Gazette for seven years. Linda joined TTG from Caterer & Hotelkeeper where she worked on the features desk for more than five years.