Monday, July 04, 2016
We tried Ghostbusters: Dimension, the world’s most immersive VR experience
The Verge: At Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Times Square today, we got to try out one of the world’s most expensive and immersive virtual reality experiences. 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.
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I have always been interested in Virtual Reality. Making something like a sit-down Oculus environment seem real and immersive is difficult enough, so the advancement to room-scale VR amazes me. Of course lower prices would be appreciated, but with the scale of a large project like this, there is doubtlessly a huge team of designers and programmers who worked for countless hours on a project like this. I especially love the idea being being able to actually interact with objects in the room and travel between different spaces because, with only the experience of an Oculus unit, I am only used to using a controller. Even with a controller-based unit a good game is lifelike, so I could imagine the room scale version complete with props feels like you truly entered another world. What would be interesting is for the gloves in development to have some sort of control programmed into them so that, in addition to hand tracking, they could close or be restricting by virtual objects in the room/experience that aren't physically there.
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