This has potential to be a really engaging and useful platform, especially if you can connect with the various partners/affiliates. One of the things that I always try to do when traveling is stay in more local friendly neighborhoods to experience the real life of a place. If you can figure out how to integrate this into VR, all the better. I'd even suggest having a mobile app for once you get to a location. It could dynamically curate content based on things happening that day/time, that season, or similar times in years past (e.g. major yearly festivals).
My biggest concern is about how many pieces need to hit "critical mass" to be successful. You need digital content to attract users, but your model relies on users to provide the digital content.
For example, to cover a new/off-the-path location, you'll need to seed your platform with media. How much media can you scrape from publicly available locations to do this? What incentives would locals have to generate content for the platform for expanding to a new location? Would you pay freelancers or hope for people to upload content for free?
Really cool idea though and something that I could totally see using to plan my next trip!
My biggest concern is about how many pieces need to hit "critical mass" to be successful. You need digital content to attract users, but your model relies on users to provide the digital content.
For example, to cover a new/off-the-path location, you'll need to seed your platform with media. How much media can you scrape from publicly available locations to do this? What incentives would locals have to generate content for the platform for expanding to a new location? Would you pay freelancers or hope for people to upload content for free?
Really cool idea though and something that I could totally see using to plan my next trip!