While many people are using virtual reality (VR) software to create more engaging media content in the form of movies and games, a team of researchers is using it to explore a hydrothermal vent that lies roughly a mile (1.6 kilometres) under the sea.
Before now, the task of exploring these hydrothermal vents – which are incredibly dangerous because they continuously spew boiling clouds of toxic elements into the surrounding waters – would have fallen on the shoulders of remotely controlled vehicles (ROVs).
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