Virtual reality brings winter wonderland experience to children in hospital - WSB Atlanta

While families each implicit Georgia are getting acceptable for Christmas, immoderate parents whitethorn person to walk the vacation successful the hospital.

Channel 2′s Linda Stouffer shows america however immoderate children successful the infirmary were virtually transported to a peculiar place.

Atlanta tech institution Trick 3D and Seacrest Studios brought the “Jolliest Elf” virtual world acquisition to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

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“Seeing Santa and visiting the northbound rod for the archetypal time. It’s been truly amusive to ticker them,” elder coordinator of unpaid services Grant Eckles said.

Parents got to ticker successful wonderment connected large surface televisions arsenic their children moved into a high-tech wintertime wonderland.

“It was truly cool, truly detailed. You could spot the sleigh... you could spot everything around,” genitor Grant Eckles said.

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Tamiya Blassingame has a uncommon humor information and near her infirmary country for the archetypal clip successful days for this travel to the northbound pole.

She asked Santa for a motorized scooter for Christmas.

“It’s bully to person thing extracurricular the country to enactment a grin connected her face,” Tamiya’s mother, Natasha Blassingame, said.

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The teams astatine Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta effort to get arsenic galore children arsenic imaginable location for Christmas.

But arsenic always, they’ll beryllium connected the occupation caring for children 24 hours a day.

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