Ghostbusters: Dimension - The World’s most Immersive VR Experience
The Verge try out one of the world’s most expensive and immersive virtual reality experiences at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Times Square. On July 1st, Sony and a Utah startup called The Void will open Ghostbusters: Dimension, which lets you become a ghostbuster in what The Void likes to call a "hyper-real" world.
29 June 2016
| Lacey Glave
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The Verge
The Verge try out one of the world’s most expensive and immersive virtual reality experiences at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Times Square. On July 1st, Sony and a Utah startup called The Void will open Ghostbusters: Dimension, which lets you become a ghostbuster in what The Void likes to call a "hyper-real" world.
Dimension is part of a larger exhibit based on the new Ghostbusters movie, which also includes wax versions of the stars and a walk-through haunted house experience.
With two partners, you enter an elaborate stage where the real world is mapped to the virtual one, capturing ghosts by shooting a plastic gun that stands in for a proton pack.
You can see and talk to your fellow "ghostbusters" in VR, and you can feel the walls, sit in chairs, and sense being shot with a proton pack or touched by a ghost.
It’s all possible because of a high-end headset, a haptic vest, a backpack computer, and a really sophisticated tracking system — all of which so far haven’t been seen outside some limited beta testing and an appearance at TED.
Dimension is part of a larger exhibit based on the new Ghostbusters movie, which also includes wax versions of the stars and a walk-through haunted house experience.
With two partners, you enter an elaborate stage where the real world is mapped to the virtual one, capturing ghosts by shooting a plastic gun that stands in for a proton pack.
You can see and talk to your fellow "ghostbusters" in VR, and you can feel the walls, sit in chairs, and sense being shot with a proton pack or touched by a ghost.
It’s all possible because of a high-end headset, a haptic vest, a backpack computer, and a really sophisticated tracking system — all of which so far haven’t been seen outside some limited beta testing and an appearance at TED.
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