(NOTE: To use the 360° camera controls, you might need to watch the below video directly through Youtube – if you’re on mobile you can open it using the Youtube app and if you’re on desktop you can click on the Youtube link in the lower right hand corner of the video)
We’ve posted some 360° videos of Jakarta before, but this one takes it up to a whole other level. Produced by the Ministry of Tourism as part of their “Wonderful Indonesia” campaign, the “Jakarta Virtual Reality Project” was clearly designed for dedicated virtual reality devices such as the Oculus Rift in mind, as indicated by the caution sign early on in the video.
But regardless of whether you have such a VR device or not, it’s still a very cool video, much slicker and more sophisticated than the previous 360° videos about Jakarta we’ve seen. It incorporates computer graphic overlays to provide things like historical facts on top of an immersive view of Fatahillah Square as well as time lapse and drone shots.
It spends a nearly equal amount of time in the Pulau Seribu (Thousand Islands) and areas just outside of the capital, like Puncak as it does inside the city, but it definitely does its job of making Jakarta look like an attractive place for tourists to come visit.
