Virtual Tourism via Painted Panoramas

This past April, amid pandemic bans, the Faroe Islands announced a new tourism strategy: virtual tours. Online visitors signed up to view a feed from a camera attached to the helmet of a local, whose movements could be prompted using the directional arrows. Users thus got interactive, wide-angle views of the archipelago’s mountains, sheep, villages, and waterfalls.
Today, virtual tourism is enabled by computer engineers. In the late eighteenth century, the task fell to painters. Irish arti