{"id":86440,"date":"2026-07-02T20:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/?p=86440"},"modified":"2026-07-02T20:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:54:18","slug":"fri-amsterdam-history-cruise-golden-age-boat-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/cultuur\/vr-amsterdam-history-cruise-rondvaart-gouden-eeuw\/","title":{"rendered":"VR Amsterdam History Cruise: This Is What the Golden Age Really Looked Like"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are plenty of canal tours in Amsterdam. But on VR Voyage\u2019s VR Amsterdam History Cruise, you\u2019ll put on a headset at seven different moments, and the cityscape will vanish before your eyes. The canal-side houses, the bridges, the quays: everything transforms into what Amsterdam looked like during the 17th-century Golden Age, from 1600 to 1700. It\u2019s not just a flat animation on a screen, but a 360-degree experience that places you right in the heart of historic Amsterdam.<\/h2>\n

Behind the tour is XR Visuals Factory, a young Amsterdam-based company that combines history and technology. The VR Amsterdam History Cruise is their first product, released under the name VR Voyage. They deliberately chose the water as their setting: the canals have remained largely unchanged, which makes the comparison between then and now all the more striking. As the boat sails, a guide provides historical commentary. Between the VR segments, you simply get to enjoy the sights of modern-day Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

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The boat itself is enclosed and heated\u2014it\u2019s not an open-air tour boat where the wind blows freely. Upon boarding, you\u2019ll receive a welcome drink, included in the ticket price. The tour lasts 75 minutes and departs from the dock next to Lido Bar and Kitchen on Leidsekade, in the city center. At exactly 7 locations along the route, passengers are fitted with a headset. At those spots, the modern world fades away, and the world of 400 years ago begins. Then the headset comes off again, and you simply see the quay, the cyclists, and the city.<\/p>\n

In just 7 moments, you put on a headset, and the cityscape vanishes before your eyes: everything transforms into the 17th-century Golden Age.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Choosing the Leidsekade as the starting point is no coincidence. It\u2019s one of the city\u2019s busier quays, but as soon as the boat glides out onto the water toward the quieter canals, that changes quickly. The same canals you may have seen a hundred times before, but now it feels as if you\u2019re seeing them for the first time.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Er zijn genoeg rondvaarten op de Amsterdamse grachten. Maar bij de VR Amsterdam History Cruise van VR Voyage zet je op 7 momenten een headset op, en verdwijnt het stadsgezicht voor je ogen. De grachtenpanden, de bruggen, de kades: alles transformeert naar hoe Amsterdam eruitzag in de 17e-eeuwse Gouden Eeuw, van 1600 tot 1700. Geen … <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":86482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"district":[9],"class_list":["post-86440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultuur","district-amsterdam-centrum"],"acf":{"slider":[86483],"fotograaf":"","editor":"","video":"","google_360":"","instagram_code":"","subregel":"XR Visuals Factory neemt je mee terug naar het 17e-eeuwse Amsterdam op het water","new_in_town":false,"featured_item":false,"beste_van_amsterdam":false,"homepage_carousel":false,"cord_A":"","cord_B":"","introductie_tekst":"Op 7 plekken langs de Amsterdamse grachten zet je een VR-headset op en verdwijnt het hedendaagse stadsbeeld. In 360 graden zie je de stad zoals ze eruitzag tijdens de Gouden Eeuw. De VR Amsterdam History Cruise van VR Voyage doet dit vanuit een verwarmde boot, met een drankje in de hand.","rubriek":"Locatie","locatie_event":null,"naam_locatie":"VR Amsterdam History Cruise","adres":"Leidsekade 101","stad":"Amsterdam","website":"https:\/\/www.vrvoyage.nl","telefoon_nummer":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86485,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86440\/revisions\/86485"}],"acf:attachment":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86440"},{"taxonomy":"district","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsterdamnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/district?post=86440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}