Royal Commission for AlUla’s exciting new hot air balloon experience offers bird’s eye view of Hegra UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Metaverse

Royal Commission for AlUla’s exciting new hot air balloon experience offers bird’s eye view of Hegra UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Metaverse

- Innovative digital recreation of Hegra's Tomb of Lihyan allows online travellers to fully explore AlUla's most famous monument inside and out, from anywhere in the world

- Accessible via Decentraland, fun and interactive hot air balloon experience allows visitors to soar above Hegra, offering incredible and ultra-realistic views of iconic landmark

ALULA, Saudi Arabia /PRNewswire/ -- The Royal Commission for AlUla's (RCU) recent debut in the world of the Metaverse invited visitors to discover and explore a to-scale and completely immersive 3D model of Hegra's Tomb of Lihyan, Son of Kuza – the first UNESCO World Heritage site in the exciting, and globally accessible, digital realm.

Now, RCU has gone one step further by harnessing the Metaverse's incredible adaptability and capability to engage with virtual tourists in exciting new dimensions with the launch of an interactive hot air balloon experience. The next thrilling phase of RCU's Metaverse journey, the experience launches alongside the latest edition of the annual AlUla Hot Air Balloon Festival, in cooperation with the Saudi Arabian Hot Air Ballooning Federation.

Offering online visitors unrivalled and hyper-realistic 360-degree views of Hegra's most famous landmark, the hot air balloon experience combines all the thrills of soaring into the skies above the digital