Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( mit ) have used Google 's Project Tango to develop an app capable of exploring real - life spaces – including furniture – and transforming them into virtual reality ( VR ) environments . MIT 's interactive project created four locations : a natural landscape , an island surrounded by shipwrecks , a lava flow and a metallic platform in space , each of which could be accessed by users with a mobile phone and a VR headset . The team behind Oasis dubbed the concept " loop - in - the - maze - storytelling " and suggested VR could be used to combine physical and digital objects .
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have used Google's Project Tango to develop an app capable of scanning real-life spaces – including furniture – and transforming them into virtual reality (VR) environments. MIT's Oasis project created four locations: a natural landscape, an island surrounded by shipwrecks, a lava flow and a metallic platform in space, each of which could be accessed by users with a Tango phone and a VR headset. The team behind Oasis dubbed the system "human-in-the-loop-storytelling" and suggested VR could be used to combine physical and digital objects.