Though we are now just over 100 days into Donald Trump’s first term as president, the sheer pace of the news cycle has made it feel more like 100 months. The eight years that President Barack Obama occupied the White House seems like a lifetime ago.
Now, those wistful Americans with access to an Oculus Rift can travel back in time via a virtual reality tour of the White House, narrated by Barack and Michelle Obama.
Produced by Felix & Paul Studios, the VR tour offers despondent liberals and history buffs an inside look at the executive mansion. The Obamas, in both voiceover and in-person interviews, look back on some of their fondest White House memories and outline a number of the most consequential moments in the history of the 200-year-old house on Pennsylvania Avenue.
The tour visits the Oval Office, Cabinet Room, Situation Room, Roosevelt Room, State Dining Room, and many more locations in the world’s most famous rental unit. There is a tranquility to the White House, which is especially impressive given the circumstances during which the video was produced — scouting pre-production at the White House began on November 9th, less than 12 hours after Hillary Clinton, who Obama endorsed to be his successor, went down in a shocking defeat.
“It was probably exactly like what you’d imagine that day,” Paul Raphaël, one of the studio’s co-founders, told Inverse. “People were sad; I saw a few people crying. It was an intense time to be there.”
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Source: Inverse