View-Master Experience Pack: Destinations

You must first purchase the Virtual Reality View Master in order to use this experience pack. Once you download the app for the Destinations experience pack on your smart phone, follow the directions and step into another world! Have you ever been to the Reflections of China 360 experience at Disney World? If you have then I don't have to say anything more! This truly IS a 360 degree experience with 3D photos, action video and sound. Click on various digital icons to go to the next frame and yet another world opens up. This experience pack takes you to the Statue of Liberty where it is so “real” you feel like you can reach out and touch it! Then move on to explore Mayan ruins (my grandson's favorite). Each “click” takes you even deeper into the experience, offering movies, information and the sound quality is very good! Actually, this is more than a 360 degree experience because you can look up and down as well as all around and see even more things in incredible detail! Our highly technical 12 year old grandson tried it out and all he could say is “wow, this is way cool”! At present there are only 3 different experience packs. Hopefully they will make more because I will definitely purchase them! Not only did the grandchildren enjoy this, my husband and I did too. VERY reasonably priced for what you receive. Highly recommend this toy for “children” of all ages!

Using the View-Master Experience Pack, Destinations was fun and informative. It works with the View-Master Virtual Reality Viewer that is sold separately and is only usable with specific Smartphones that are listed on the View-Master box. After you have a View-Master Viewer and compatible Smartphone, you need to download the View-Master Destinations application from the Google Play Store or iTunes App Store to your phone. Once you are ready to use the Destinations Experience Pack you launch the app on your phone, click on “I have a Pass Card” and place the card that is included in the package on your phone to unlock the discs for the set; then you follow the prompts on your phone for placing it into the View-Master Viewer and launching the discs. The Destinations Pack lets you view Ellis Island in New York, Chichen Itza in the Yucatan and the Tower of London. I found that once you launch a disc you get to look around and click on information prompts to read about a location or move on to another location in the area; you need to be careful while using the viewer because you will be turning around to look behind you because it is a full 360 degree experience. Using the viewer while sitting in a chair that can swivel around would be a safe way to not walk into furniture. I found that looking straight down you will find several controls but the best one is the “Back” button; that will take you to a screen where you can choose to go to any of the 3 disc locations without re-launching another disc.