German Tourism Via VR

Tourists will be able to explore the picturesque cross-timbered houses and historic churches of Herrenberg via virtual reality (VR), due to a digital twin developed with the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS). Tourists can digitally explore the town with VR glasses before they come to Herrenberg. Herrenberg is already using the digital twin, which incorporates super-computing and technologies typically deployed in advanced aerospace, to visualize city data and citizens’ emotional responses to inform better decision-making. HLRS developed Herrenberg’s digital twin together with the Fraunhofer Institute, the University of Stuttgart, and Kommunikationsbüro Ulmer, starting with a concept called ‘space syntax’.