House of horror: Virtual reality film depicts Islamic State devastation in Fallujah
You have just returned to your home after a year of forced exile.
But instead of coming back to a place of refuge and solace, the rooms may be hiding unexploded bombs - and each step could be your last.
This was the reality for Ahmaied Hamad Khalaf, an Iraqi man who in 2017 returned to his home in Fallujah, Iraq, after fierce fighting between Islamic State (IS) fighters and the Iraqi army.
Now, through a new virtual reality (VR) documentary, people in Washington DC will have a chance to experience the terror he felt.
"If you see a bomb you would usually recognise it, but this stuff is new," Khalaf says in the film about the possibility that his home was laden with improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
The film was created in part by using photogrammetry,...
Gaedtke's company, NowHere Media, partnered with the GICHD - which works to remove IEDs around the world - to create the film, thanks to a grant from VR company Oculus.
"War is something that affects areas and people; it's not this on-and-off switch of a Hollywood movie that there is either heavy fighting or nothing is going on at all."
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