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World-first VR rail carriage lets senior care residents travel across 10 countries

www.trendwatching.com·Liesbeth den Toom·about 1 month ago
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An Australian care facility is rethinking what a good day looks like for its senior residents. St Vincent's Care in Toowoomba has converted a former training room into a permanent immersive travel experience — a mock fine-dining rail carriage where up to ten residents at a time can take a virtual trip through ten countries. Called the St Vincent's Express , it uses six large screens as "windows" onto landscapes from the Swiss Alps to destinations across Asia and Europe, with an AI avatar providing commentary in five languages. Residents get a rail ticket and passport stamped with each country they visit, and the journey comes with regional food. The concept came from Elzette Lategan, the facility's residential care services manager, who spent two years developing it after encountering a mobile immersive experience built by a Queensland entrepreneur. Her guiding question throughout was whether her own mother — who had dementia — would enjoy it.…

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