New virtual museum allows visitors to travel back to prehistoric Nebraska

Courtesy image: "Expedition Nebraska: A Natural History VR Experience" begins in a courtyard set within a landscape resembling Nebraska’s Sandhills during a summer sunset.
Courtesy image: "Expedition Nebraska: A Natural History VR Experience" begins in a courtyard set within a landscape resembling Nebraska’s Sandhills during a summer sunset.

by Nebraska Public Media

A collaboration between Nebraska Public Media Labs and the University of Nebraska State Museum allows visitors to virtually travel back in time to prehistoric Nebraska and get a feel for how it has changed over the millennia.

Visitors to “Expedition Nebraska: A Natural History VR Experience” can use laptops, mobile devices and soon virtual reality headsets to “meet” some of the animals that lived and died during the millions of years before humans migrated to the Great Plains.

To visit “Expedition Nebraska” on the web, click here. Versions for mobile devices are available now in the Apple App and Google Play stores.

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https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/new-virtual-museum-allows-visitors-to-travel-back-to-prehistoric-nebraska/