www.themeparkinsider.com: Night time provides a great environment for stories. It's spooky and mysterious. The dark sky and low light of night time offers a handy environment for theme park designers when they want to create an indoor ride or attraction. It's just easier to make an environment look natural when you set it in night time instead of the bright, harsh, revealing light of day time.
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I think this is really interesting and it really plays with the idea of reality versus fantasy and I think it will blur the lines for most at the theme park and it will create a more seamless transition and in the end create a more pleasant transition to and from reality versus the fantasy. I think this is so powerful if as a designer you really want the audience and person to take in the fantasy as the reality and by taking away the harsh change and transition you allow the audience to slowly accept the world and it becomes more believable that you were in this fantasy without ever even realizing that it's happening. And I think that is so magical and so cool and it's gonna bring such an amazing new aspect to the theme parks and eventually maybe even to the theater. I would definitely want to follow this pattet and see where this leads and would love to experience it for myself one day and see if I notice the change.
This is a version of augmented reality that we haven't heard a lot about, but seems to be fairly straightforward. This patent could be fulfilled with something as simple as a camera pointing at the sky and a line to a TV, although my assumption is that universal would add more technology into the mix. Having a display that looks like a window is a task that has been tried many times, and is not easy. While it requires very expensive technology to get something that bright that you won’t notice that you are stepping inside on a bright sunny day, I think that we might be getting close to that point. I do wonder what the compositing that they are going to do will look like. I think that in order to make the effect as realistic as possible it will be necessary to do as little processing as possible, but it does sound like they want to be able to make some significant changes, like making pigs fly or put a face on the moon. I honestly don’t know what kinds of tools are available right now to do that kind of graphics processing on a live image.
Augmented reality has been on the horizon for some time now, but I haven’t really seen it done super well yet. Most of the AR stuff I’ve seen has been like those snapchat filters with the dancing bear. This, however, looks awesome. Blending the attraction environment with the natural environment sounds like such a cool idea that keeps the audience inside the ride the whole time. This would transform theme parks. “Dark rides” wouldn’t have to be dark. The park’s most impressive rides wouldn’t have to be in huge buildings, and rides could intersect. I think this sounds so cool and I really want to see it work well because it would bring whole new possibilities to the design of theme parks. Beyond the rides themselves, I think this could really improve the atmosphere of theme parks too. If blended with practicals, this could make the environment of the general theme park so much more dynamic.
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