The VOID: Travel Beyond Reality Step Beyond Reality Virtual Reality ExperienceThe VOID is anything but a traditional VR experience. It is an entirely new category of immersive virtual experiences that moves beyond traditional applications of VR by uniting the physical and virtual world into seamless meaning and connection.Instead of being a passive participant, The VOID invites visitors to physically step into alternate universe – digital worlds mapped over physical stages with immersive and interactive sensory elements such as touch and smell that empower each visitors journey and place them – moving freely— inside impossible worlds.The VOID also allows you to embark on these journeys with friends and family. At our Vegas location you can experience 3 immersive stories: Ralph Breaks VR, Nicodemus, and Starwars: Secrets of the Empire. In Ralph Breaks VR, you and your friends will sneak onto the internet disguised as “Netizens” to play the coolest, newest video game ever.
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The Void’s Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire is an immersive virtual reality experience that places visitors inside the Star Wars universe. A clever wireless rig allows guests to freely roam a.
Shoot retro alien spaceships, squash pixel bugs and fend off hordes of evil bunnies and kitties in the Pancake Milkshake Diner while you team up with Ralph and Vanellope in a race against time to see who can rack up the highest score! It’s all fun and games until an evil security system shows up and threatens to take you and your new buddy’s offline.permanently.In Nicodemus: Demon of Evanishment is The VOID’s first publicly released original title. Nicodemus is a bone-chilling journey that transports you and your team of four back in time to the decaying ruins of the renowned Chicago World’s Fair in 1894.
As you carefully step through the abandoned exhibit hall, you encounter a supernatural presence along the way. The team’s goal, explore the abandoned exhibits and try not to get caught by the demon, Nicodemus.Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire is a socially interactive, breathtaking journey that blends the physical with the virtual world. Under the orders of the rebellion, teams of four guests must work together to infiltrate an Imperial base disguised as stormtroopers where they’ll navigate through to steal critical intelligence with help from familiar Star Wars characters along the way.The VOID is pioneering a new wave of storytelling by collaborating with Hollywood’s top filmmakers and storytellers that are ushering in a new storytelling medium. Come check us out today! Jumanji: Reverse the CurseStep into the jungle and Step Beyond Reality with a brand new immersive experience from The VOID and Sony Pictures Virtual Reality!
On November 27, 2019, team up and get ready to take it to the next level with Jumanji: Reverse the Curse!Heed the warning of the jungle drums! You and your companions fall into this unique world of adventure, becoming Dr. Bravestone, Ruby Roundhouse, Prof. Oberon or ‘Mouse’ Finbar.
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You risk your ‘three’ lives in a daring quest to return the jewel to the temple from which it was stolen. Feel the cooling mists of waterfalls and the burning heat of desert sands. Each of you have unique abilities – and you must use them together to survive.
From ‘dance fighting’ to navigating dangerous animals, with every step you become the heroes who must ‘save Jumanji and call out its name!’.
Hyper-reality has officially landed in Toronto as today marks the opening of the newest VOID Experience Centre in the fourth largest city in North America and a popular tourist destination.And through a joint venture with Cineplex, The VOID will live in one of their new social venues called The Rec Room, alongside a range of dining, amusement gaming, and live entertainment experiences.This is the second location for Cineplex’s The Rec Room. Their other location in Canada features virtual reality through a relationship with, using their proprietary VR arcade platform with HTC Vives.I sat down with James Jensen, The VOID’s Co-Founder and Chief Visionary Officer, to learn more about what’s next. Beyond an accelerated focus on expansion, exciting content news is in the works.A lot has happened since first meeting with Jensen and Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer Curtis Hickman in Toronto back in 2015, when I just started the conversation about bringing them into the Cineplex ecosystem. An entire VR industry has appeared, and is snowballing.
And many companies are attempting to build ‘VOID-like’ experiences to profit off of the concept. James is flattered that people are mimicking them because it provides “validation that what we’re doing is what people wantWe have a business model that works.” He estimates that about 100,000 individuals have already tried The VOID to date.But their future reality sits well beyond the current concept in market. What’s next from this group? The VOIDs’s SDKRight now, all four of The VOID locations, including their newest in, are featuring the Ghostbusters: Dimension experience. Expect two new experiences at The VOID in 2017. With the completion of their SDK in late 2016, they’re working with third parties ranging from major studios to local content creators.
Third party content will soon deliver the majority of the experiences available. One of The VOID’s new experiences for 2017 has been developed in-house, while the other will be from a to-be-announced IP. Now that they have SDKs and more development time, as their content pipeline is planned further ahead, James promises more, and more incredible illusions.Localized ContentAs The VOID expands worldwide the Team is eager to integrate storylines curated for their technology from the unique regions where they operate. This goes far beyond localization for language, to “culturally driven content” such as ancestral storylines, that will also engage new audiences in other regions. The VOID Will Extend Into HomesNo, your living room will not be able to house hyper-reality experiences.
But, The VOID will be extending select experiences from their VECs through mobile, as a means to have “pre-experience content” and retain engagement even when guests aren’t there.The VOID’s own Rapture peripherals may help to extend that experience, and provide an additional mechanism for monetization. Most notably, Jensen highlighted their blaster: “We’ve only used about 10% of it’s capabilities, because we built it with the intention for this to be any type of weapon that you can imagine It has different kids of motors in it.
And we’re barely using any of those right now.” Maybe soon The VOID could extend into homes through Vive’s open-sourced tracking system. The VOID May Play with Augmented RealityWhen I asked Jensen about possibilities with AR, he highlighted the possibility of how it could come to life in a manner that makes sense for the concept. “The VOID is created for you to go to a completely new world, not to mix a world with your world. This is a place where you go to have a dream-like experience and be somebody else.” However, “for content that extends in-home we definitely want to do that.”Product and Content InnovationThe experiences that they have in the works will require better networks, processors, GPUs, and more. They will start to integrate the use of photogrammetry as well, for example. As Jensen put it, “The VOID is a perfect catalyst for these new types of technologies.” So, the team is working with technology partners to live up to their evolving vision of the future of hyper-reality.And, The VOID plans to take advantage of operating at physical locations.
It’s the perfect ground to test new technologies and concepts that could range anywhere from scanning in personalized avatars, to localized sponsorship opportunities. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website.
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