Internet users have the opportunity to enjoy a stroll through former war zones and disputed areas through a technologically advanced program developed by Google in collaboration with the British universities Durham and Royal Holloway. The program takes viewers into a virtual reality and provides users with the opportunity to tour and see in incredible detail the dead zone of Cyprus, guerrilla areas of the Colombian jungle and abandoned from World War I French villages, as it is today.
The Dead Zone of Cyprus or No Man's Land, as it is called internationally, is a strip of land without life. A painful dividing line that separates the occupied territories from the occupied territories of the Republic of Cyprus, while the Green Line is the point that makes Nicosia the last divided capital of Europe.
Multimedia, high-resolution images, VR technologies, 3D recordings and interviews with people about how they experience the dead zone are just some of the tools Google and the geographers of the two British universities have used to bring us to the Dead Zone, which is under the jurisdiction of the United Nations.
The project, which allows all users to access historically important areas locked behind barbed wire and minefields, is a collaboration between Google Arts & Culture and researchers at Durham and Royal Holloway Universities.
Cycling against obstacles
The history of farmers
The story of an Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot who with their art challenge the Dead Zone
A two-community group of teenagers travels for the first time to the Dead Zone
Source: Philenews
