Add Context to Learning with Virtual Reality

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Long ago I learned that the best way to tour a city is by bike. A car isolates a tourist from a city, while a bike immerses them in it. A car is a means of racing from tourist destination to tourist destination in as little time as possible, with heavy traffic, protests, and everything else in between being only distractions to avoid. But it is everything between tourist destinations that makes a city what it is, including its people, climate, and culture. A bike contextualizes the city from the perspective of someone living it in.

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