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It depends how you use them. University of Florida (UF) is a hustling, bustling campus and community. The beauty of University of Florida (UF) virtual tours on CampusReel is that authentic video tours, made by real students, can be spectacular at capturing the University of Florida (UF) vibe. We also go well beyond the confines of the University of Florida (UF) campus by taking you around Gainesville. In traditional virtual tours, you will mostly see still, unengaging images and will not see the surrounding area at all – which is why CampusReel virtual tours are so important.

Can a University of Florida (UF) virtual tour replace a traditional in-person visit?

If you cannot visit University of Florida (UF) in person, then we can honestly say that we believe a CampusReel virtual tour of University of Florida (UF) is absolutely the most effective and holistic way to understand the University of Florida (UF) people, campus and community. However, if you do plan on visiting University of Florida (UF) and other colleges in person, we strongly recommend that you at least prescreen your college options on CampusReel before spending the time and money to visit. Most prospective families find that as soon as the step on campus, they instantly know whether or not they like the school – but they’ve already spent all that time and money getting there! Our goal is to eliminate all the time and money visiting University of Florida (UF) in person until you can make a strong educated guess that it’s worth the investment.

What places can I virtually tour at University of Florida (UF)?

For your convenience, below is a list of University of Florida (UF) places you can virtually tour on CampusReel.

  • Ustler Hall at University of Florida (UF)
  • The Century Tower at University of Florida (UF)
  • Kung Fu Tea at University of Florida (UF)
  • Broward Outdoor Recreational Complex at University of Florida (UF)
  • Rawlings Hall at University of Florida (UF)
  • The Courtyards at University of Florida (UF)
  • Eight Seconds at University of Florida (UF)
  • Jennings Hall B at University of Florida (UF)
  • Beaty Towers at University of Florida (UF)
  • Carleton Auditorium at University of Florida (UF)
  • Grog House Bar & Grill at University of Florida (UF)
  • Southwest Recreation Center at University of Florida (UF)
  • Springs Residential Complex at University of Florida (UF)
  • UF Marston Science Library at University of Florida (UF)
  • 1365 Museum Rd at University of Florida (UF)
  • University of Florida - Tigert Hall at University of Florida (UF)
  • University of Florida at University of Florida (UF)
  • University of Florida Bookstore at University of Florida (UF)
  • University of Florida Southwest Recreation Center at University of Florida (UF)
  • McCarty Hall A at University of Florida (UF)
  • Tolbert Hall at University of Florida (UF)
  • Warrington College of Business at University of Florida (UF)
  • Sisler Hall at University of Florida (UF)
  • Otis Hawkins Center at University of Florida (UF)
  • University of Florida: Keys Residential Complex at University of Florida (UF)
  • Fogboxx at University of Florida (UF)
  • Newell Hall at University of Florida (UF)
  • Turlington Plaza at University of Florida (UF)
  • Ginnie Spring at University of Florida (UF)
  • Jennings Hall at University of Florida (UF)
  • Official Gator Sports Shop at University of Florida (UF)
  • Keys Residential Complex at University of Florida (UF)
  • Turlington Hall at University of Florida (UF)
  • Reitz Union North Lawn at University of Florida (UF)
  • Student Recreation & Fitness Center at University of Florida (UF)
  • Alfred A. McKethan Stadium at Perry Field at University of Florida (UF)
  • The Hub at University of Florida (UF)
  • Weaver Hall at University of Florida (UF)
  • Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at University of Florida (UF)
  • Library West at University of Florida (UF)
  • Ben Hill Griffin Stadium at University of Florida (UF)
  • Chick-fil-A at University of Florida (UF)
  • Chemistry Laboratory at University of Florida (UF)
  • ROTC at University of Florida (UF)
  • Machine Intelligence Lab (MIL) at University of Florida (UF)
  • Reitz Union Drive at University of Florida (UF)

What are the downsides of a University of Florida (UF) virtual tour?

The downside of virtually touring University of Florida (UF) on CampusReel is that, admittedly, our technology does not yet mimic the exact feeling and experience of visiting University of Florida (UF) in person. We are working on this though! A common request we also receive from users is to add more perspectives (e.g. student guides) to the platform. Rest assured we are working on adding more CampusReel guides to the University of Florida (UF) virtual tour. However, our selection of guides still far outweighs the available perspectives of traditional virtual tour platforms.

What are the benefits of a University of Florida (UF) virtual tour?

The most obvious benefit of a University of Florida (UF) virtual tour on CampusReel is that is can be accessed from anywhere. This can save families a lot of time and money compared to visiting University of Florida (UF) in person . Another often overlooked benefit of a CampusReel virtual tour is that it goes far beyond a traditional in person tour University of Florida (UF) . Campus visits are limited both in time and scope – how are you expected to truly understand a college in a 1 hour tour? That’s why we stress the added benefit of CampusReel virtual tours – experience University of Florida (UF) and Gainesville during different seasons, days of the week, and even hours of the day. What’s game day like? What is finals week life? Again, traditional virtual touring platforms don’t include this benefit.

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  • Virtal tour to Florida State University (FSU)
  • Virtal tour to University of South Florida-Main Campus (USF)

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Campus tours.

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The University of Florida Office of Admissions offers campus tours for prospective students and their guests at the Welcome Center which is located at 1900 Museum Road, Gainesville, FL 32611. Campus tours include a 30-minute admissions information session and a 90-minute walking tour led by current students.

You may try to find parking in the Welcome Center garage, located at 737 Reitz Union Drive, Gainesville, FL 32611.  Please find the parking attendant in the Welcome Center garage for assistance as he tries to hold spaces for our visitors.  If there are no available spots in the Welcome Center parking garage, overflow visitor parking may be found in Garage 5 located at 1108 Gale Lemerand Drive, Gainesville, FL 32611. There is an $8.00 charge for all-day parking in both garages. Note that if you are parking in Garage 5, it is about a 10-15 minute walk to the Welcome Center. Please plan accordingly. (Directions to the Welcome Center from Garage 5: turn left when exiting the garage to go north on Gale Lemerand. Turn right on Museum Road and walk about a block. The Welcome Center will be on your left.)

Accommodations

If needed, we can provide non-motorized wheelchairs or a sign language interpreter. If you need one of these accommodations, contact the Welcome Center at 352-392-2959 at least one week before your visit.

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If you are unable to register for a guided tour, please sign up for the wait list by clicking your preferred date or check out our self-guided tour . Registration spaces will become available periodically due to cancellations, so you can check back to see if space has opened up on your preferred visit date.

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The Americas

Virtual reality offers a chilling 3d look inside venezuela's spiraling prison.

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A person standing near Times Square in New York City wears a virtual reality headset screening an immersive experience of the conditions at Venezuela's El Helicoide prison, on Sept. 19, 2023. Protesters gathered to demand the release of political prisoners and the closure of the detention center over allegations of torture. Stefan Jeremiah/AP hide caption

A person standing near Times Square in New York City wears a virtual reality headset screening an immersive experience of the conditions at Venezuela's El Helicoide prison, on Sept. 19, 2023. Protesters gathered to demand the release of political prisoners and the closure of the detention center over allegations of torture.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia — After being tortured and brutalized during 129 days at El Helicoide, Venezuela's most notorious jail for dissidents, human rights activist Víctor Navarro was determined to expose its horrors to the world.

He wrote a book, but it didn't capture the true madness of El Helicoide — which is Spanish for helicoid, named for its helix design.

But then Navarro took a virtual reality tour of the house of Holocaust victim Anne Frank. Although viewing it in Argentina, it made him feel like he was right in the secret annex in Amsterdam where Frank hid from the Nazis for 25 months before she was captured and sent to a concentration camp, where she died of typhus.

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Víctor Navarro, a Venezuelan former political prisoner and developer of the "Helicoide Reality" project, shows the virtual reality tour simulating the conditions in which the prisoners live in the prison, during an interview with AFP in Buenos Aires on July 27, 2023. Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Víctor Navarro, a Venezuelan former political prisoner and developer of the "Helicoide Reality" project, shows the virtual reality tour simulating the conditions in which the prisoners live in the prison, during an interview with AFP in Buenos Aires on July 27, 2023.

"It was really moving," Navarro tells NPR. "So, I decided: This is what I'm going to do."

After working with 3D graphic designers and interviewing 30 former Venezuelan political prisoners, Navarro put together a virtual reality tour of El Helicoide. Then, he hit the road, VR headsets in hand, to educate audiences in the U.S, Europe and Latin America about the growing repression of Venezuela's authoritarian regime.

Navarro, 28, lives in Argentina where he has refugee status. Ex-inmates that he interviewed for the project were mostly inside Venezuela.

It's an intense experience. With Navarro narrating (in Spanish, with an English version also available), viewers are led into Helicoide's dark, cramped, underground cells that are fouled by human feces. Flies buzz, water drips, cockroaches scurry away.

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Víctor Navarro shows on his laptop part of the virtual reality tour of Venezuela's El Helicoide prison. Luis Robayo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Víctor Navarro shows on his laptop part of the virtual reality tour of Venezuela's El Helicoide prison.

Then comes the accounts of former inmates. One tells of being handcuffed and shoved inside a tiny, isolation cell where he could barely move. Another describes almost suffocating when a guard pulled a plastic bag over his head.

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A screen grab from the virtual reality experience created by Venezuelan former political prisoner Víctor Navarro. Víctor Navarro/Screenshot by NPR hide caption

A screen grab from the virtual reality experience created by Venezuelan former political prisoner Víctor Navarro.

"That's when the real torture began," the former inmate says. "I don't know how many times I fainted."

There's even sound, which Navarro says was secretly recorded by another prisoner on his cellphone, of a detainee screaming as guards shock him with electricity.

"The idea of doing something through virtual reality was spectacular," says Antony Vegas, an opposition activist who was detained at the Helicoide for five years and worked on the project with Navarro after he was released. "It's a way to teach what torture at El Helicoide is really like."

One fan is Javier Corrales, a Venezuela expert at Amherst College in Massachusetts who, along with his students, took the VR tour of the Helicoide during Navarro's recent visit to the campus.

"There are plenty of talks and exhibits about human rights violations, political prisoners and torture, but nothing like this," Corrales says. "And there is nothing as portable and as vivid as this technology can produce."

One of Corrales' students, Giulia Miotto, said the experience left her shaking and sweating. In a class paper she wrote: "I truly hope that this virtual reality experience of El Helicoide is able to help drive its closure. In the meantime, it is devastating that these atrocities are ongoing."

The Venezuelan government did not respond to NPR's requests for comment. But in 2022 it "categorically rejected" a U.N. report that described the widespread torture of political prisoners in the country's jails.

Ironically, the Helicoide was once a symbol of Venezuela's progress amid an oil boom.

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A view of Venezuela's intelligence police headquarters, known as el Helicoide, in Caracas, Venezuela, 2018. It was the same year that Navarro was brought there. Fernando Llano/AP hide caption

A view of Venezuela's intelligence police headquarters, known as el Helicoide, in Caracas, Venezuela, 2018. It was the same year that Navarro was brought there.

Construction began in the 1950s under dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. It was designed to be a luxury shopping mall and convention center. Its spiral design suggests a spaceship and drew praise from artist Salvador Dalí and poet Pablo Neruda.

However, Jiménez was forced out in 1958, and successive governments lost interest in the complex, which remained unfinished. At one point in the 1970s, the building filled up with squatters. Eventually, parts of El Helicoide were occupied by the state intelligence service, which added prison cells in the bottom floors.

Navarro arrived there in 2018 when he was arrested for taking part in massive protests against President Nicolás Maduro, who during 11 years in power has led Venezuela into its worst economic crisis in history. Police officers burst into Navarro's home, put a shotgun to his head, and led him off to El Helicoide.

"That's when the hell began," he says in his NPR interview.

Navarro was slapped, kicked, thrown to the floor. He recalls a guard putting three bullets into his pistol then placing it in Navarro's mouth, though he didn't pull the trigger. But he says it was even worse hearing the screams of fellow prisoners who were being tortured in nearby cells. He had been falsely accused of conspiring against the Maduro regime but after four months behind bars was suddenly released.

He is one of nearly 16,000 dissidents who have been imprisoned in Venezuela since 2014, which may be the highest number of political prisoners in Latin America, says Alfredo Romero, who heads the Caracas human rights group Foro Penal (Spanish for Criminal Forum). Although most have been released, many remain traumatized.

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Andreina Baduel (second from right) joins others to protest against the taking of what they call political prisoners outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service building known as El Helicoide, in Caracas, Venezuela, Nov 3, 2021. Baduel is the daughter of former Defense Minister Raúl Isaías Baduel, who died in prison in 2021. Ariana Cubillos/AP hide caption

Andreina Baduel (second from right) joins others to protest against the taking of what they call political prisoners outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service building known as El Helicoide, in Caracas, Venezuela, Nov 3, 2021. Baduel is the daughter of former Defense Minister Raúl Isaías Baduel, who died in prison in 2021.

"When you get out, you are not the same person," Navarro says.

Behind bars he lost 40 pounds and, once at home in Caracas, had recurring nightmares, couldn't remember people's names, and sensed that he was always being followed. Eventually, he fled Venezuela, put together the VR tour, and hit the road, visiting about 20 countries.

Meanwhile, Vegas, the former detainee who worked with Navarro on the VR tour, is discreetly presenting it to small audiences in Caracas and hoping that he won't be rearrested for doing so. Indeed, as Maduro maneuvers for another six-year term in July's presidential election, his antidemocratic crackdown continues. Romero, of Foro Penal, puts the current number of political prisoners at 264, including 67 in El Helicoide.

That's why Navarro continues to spread the word — through virtual reality.

"We are exposing what the Venezuelan government doesn't want people to see," he says. "It shows the scale of the crimes they are committing."

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