Lost WWI trench lives on in immersive VR installation

Archeology and gaming technology join forces to preserve battlefields of the past. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The rolling, green hills of West Flanders, Belgium, were once the bitter, brutal staging ground for some of the bloodiest fighting of World War I . An estimated 600,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, or went missing in that region between 1914 and 1918, often fighting along intricate but claustrophobically cramped trench lines that were perpetually bombarded by artillery fire and sinking into thick, waterlogged mud. However, a visitor walking across many of those old battlegrounds today might never know they were treading across a graveyard.