Obama’s Chicago museum to feature ‘augmented virtual reality’ Oval Office experience

Former President Barack Obama plans to take visitors of his presidential center to a new reality with an augmented video reality experience that will allow people to see the Oval Office just as he did while in the White House.

The Obama Presidential Center, which has yet to be approved by municipal and federal entities, is expected to include a replica Oval Office as do the libraries of other former presidents.

But Obama’s remade office will include technology that imposes a computer-generated image of a person’s perception of actual reality.

The office will be on the fourth floor of the 235-foot building and in “a space in which we imagine we could incorporate augmented virtual reality,” the museum’s director, Louise Bernard, told the Chicago Sun-Times.

The room is also set to hold a recreation of the Resolute Desk, which Obama used during his two terms and President Trump has continued to use.

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