Experiencing the Blitz in VR
A new BBC Virtual Reality experience takes you back to Berlin in 1943, at the height of the WW2 blitz.
The BBC’s 1943 Berlin Blitz experience first previewed for selected audiences at the Venice Film Festival where it was very well received, but it is now available for the general public to download.
“We have been overwhelmed by the response to Berlin Blitz so far. People are finding it profoundly moving. The authenticity of the audio and the nobility of the characters involved, combined with virtual reality means audiences can now relive with past with an intensity not previously possible,” says Peter Rippon, BBC Archive Editor.
The experience sets you alongside Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, a BBC war correspondent who went up in a plane on a genuine bombing run at the height of the Berlin Blitz.
To this day, Vaughan-Thomas is one of the most well remembered war correspondents of WW2. His soul-stirring reports, delivered in a trademark rich voice, saw him become a household name in Britain, giving those at home a real sense of what it was actually like to be on the front.
