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WATCH: Researchers create virtual reality forests to make danger of climate change ‘more visceral experience’ – RT
In a bid to highlight the effects of climate change, scientists at Pennsylvania State University have created a virtual reality forest, and invite “visitors” to…
Researchers at the university combined a slew of data from climate change models, vegetation models and ecological models to recreate a modern-day forest to which they then applied two different future scenarios: a base scenario and a hot and dry scenario.
The myriad of data points were combined to accurately recreate the understory, or the shrubs and plants that grow beneath the main canopy, as well as the tree population of forests, which users can then explore in the present and in the virtually-recreated…
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