---
title: "Take a VR Tour of Hundreds of NYC Restaurants"
description: "YouVisit has launched a free app for virtual tours of NYC restaurants"
date: "2015-08-12"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Nia Brown"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nia_brown"
url: "https://futurism.com/take-a-vr-tour-of-hundreds-of-nyc-restaurants"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
  - "Virtual Reality"
tags:
  - "virtual reality"
---

# Take a VR Tour of Hundreds of NYC Restaurants

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/youvisit.jpg>)

- YouVisit, the virtual reality company that pioneered virtual college tours with Oculus Rift, has expanded to New York City restaurants. YouVisit Restaurants is a new, free app for the Samsung Gear VR headset to experience restaurants in immersive VR.
- “Good atmosphere” has been found to be a significant factor in restaurant ratings. The app has been called “reverse teleportation” by the company’s director of marketing, Suzanne Sanders.
- The app currently features hundreds of restaurants throughout the city and developers plan to add more. VR technology like this is expected to grow into a $60 billion industry in the next 10 years, according to the investment bank, Piper Jaffray.