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at the San Francisco Marriott hotel visitors were recently invited to step into a booth put on the virtual reality headset oculus rift plus a pair of headphones and try out what was billed as a 4d travel experience so the fourth dimension really is which touches smell its wind at sea water being blown at you visitors were transported from a hotel lounge to a black sand beach in Hawaii and then to the very top of a skyscraper in London to enhance the experience sprays of mist simulate an ocean breeze the platform vibrates as you travel to destinations and rises to heighten the feeling of being atop the tower there's a part where they wormhole you 2,000 feet above the city and I almost lost my balance because the winds blowing it is it's beautiful it's just amazing not surprisingly Marriott hopes the virtual trips inspire wanderlust there is talks about developing new content there's talks about taking this to some of our fabulous new destinations while users are anxious to see what else the technology can do if I could actually walk and be more kind of physically interactive with it that would be an even better experience it's still early days for this tech oculus hasn't even announced when the headsets will be available but the potential could be dizzying in San Francisco I'm Sumi das cnet.com for CBS News