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VR to let Hunter communities check out coal mines

NEW South Wales Minerals Council community organisation Upper Hunter Mining Dialogue is working on a project to allow people to tour a coal mine without setting foot on a mine site.

Through the use of VR goggles, users see and hear the workings of a mine in a setting that looks and sounds real.

Through the use of VR goggles, users see and hear the workings of a mine in a setting that looks and sounds real.

In conjunction with its School Mine Tours Program that lets Upper Hunter primary and high school students physically tour working mines, the Dialogue is developing a virtual reality video that takes viewers...

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