{"id":17566,"date":"2018-07-04T12:01:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T12:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=17566"},"modified":"2025-07-02T09:42:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:42:18","slug":"walk-into-the-great-northern-forest-all-you-need-is-a-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/17566\/walk-into-the-great-northern-forest-all-you-need-is-a-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk into the Great Northern Forest – all you need is a phone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few months ago, during a coffee break, at the Greenpeace office in Helsinki, we were chatting about the incredible beauty of the <\/span>Great Northern Forest<\/span><\/a>. We had just returned from a documentation trip that had left us in awe, not only of the towering trees and deep green mossy floor, but the vast tangled areas that had been stripped away by logging machines and left in ruins.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIf only everyone in the world could see how amazing this place is and how much of it is under threat\u2026 I wish we could just transport people straight to the Great Northern Forest!\u201d someone proclaimed.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

And then, Jani, our digital guy said, \u201cwell, actually, we can, with augmented reality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n

And now, you can. <\/span><\/p>\n\n

If you haven\u2019t tried it yet, augmented reality is similar to virtual reality; you just need a smartphone and an internet connection. After downloading <\/span>the app<\/span><\/a> (see instructions below), a door appears on your phone\u2019s screen, and as you physically walk towards it, you enter the Great Northern Forest.<\/span><\/p>\n\n