This Mixed Reality Video Explains the Effects of Hurricane Florence
If you had previously decided to take the Hurricane Florence lightly, see this video right away and you might just change your mind!
A recent video of meteorologist Erika Navarro went instantly viral, given its extravagant and larger-than-life weather broadcast of Hurricane Florence. Mixed Reality, in collaboration with the weather channel, broadcasted this video of the “worst-case scenario” of a storm surge that showcased Navarro amidst a violent storm surge that seemed to rise progressively during the duration of the broadcast. If you had previously decided to take the Hurricane Florence lightly, see this video right away and you might just change your mind!
While the danger from this natural phenomenon is quite grave, it is almost impossible to deny the incredible play of immersive mixed reality with meteorological broadcasts to showcase the perils of nature on humans. These videos collate prediction and real-time data that is derived from authentic sources like the National Hurricane Center to create a real and very plausible scenario for the audience to showcase the dangers that lie ahead. Something similar was intended to be displayed in Navarro’s video which made it instantly impactful and convincing.
The Weather Channel, in this case, used the tool of Mixed Reality to its advantage to showcase the peril that the rising threat of Hurricane Florence can cause along the coast of North Carolina.
The Vice President of the Weather Channel, Michael Potts affirms, “This is lifesaving information we’re trying to convey, and we wanted to do it in a way that creates a very visceral response in viewers. We wanted to paint a real picture for people and show that anywhere in America, this could be your neighborhood.” Potts rightly called this video “a warning tool” that was going to create the much-desired impact in the audiences to warn them that their neighborhood could be next.
If statistics are to be believed, more than half of the population of the United States of America is afflicted with tropical cyclones, and the maximum deaths are the result of storm surges. Hence, this video comes as quite a lifesaver insofar as educating the people of the dangers that lie ahead.
In the wise words of one of the viewers, “I’d run for the hills if I saw this and I was in the path of this type of flooding and destruction.”
