It is also listed as one of the highest quality location-based VR (attraction facility type virtual reality) that can be experienced as of 2019/7DreamscapeTo experience it, I went to a shopping mall called Wesfield Century City in Los Angeles in America.

Dreamscape experience overview

As of 2019/7, when I visited, there are 3 contents I was able to experience: “Curse of the Lost Pearl,” “The Blue,” and “Alien Zoo.” I visited after making an online reservation in advance, and I was told that it was a popular facility with lots of reservations until night on the day. The order of experiences was in order of popularity, referring to reviews on the web and blogs beforehand, but I thought the experiences were enjoyable in that order even after the experience.

VR System Overview

There are a total of 8 rooms ready for participants to wear headsets, and each of these 2 rooms is connected to a VR experience zone. In other words, while preparations were being made in 1 room, people in the other room were experiencing VR, and efficient rotation was achieved.

The participants wear a VR head-mounted display (HMD) on their head, carry a notebook PC on their back, and wear sensor devices with blue LEDs attached to both hands and feet. Since similar sensor devices are attached to HMDs and PCs, a total of 6 points can take the position and movement of the person who experienced it. After investigation, it was discovered that these position sensing and motion capture are Swiss NPO research institutesArtanimIt seemed to be based on technology.

Inside the VR experience zone, the floor vibrated overall, and there were fans to generate wind on the walls, blue LEDs for sensors on the walls and ceilings, and various handrails, levers, rod-shaped devices, and touchable objects connected to robot arms that appeared during the experience. Whereas many locations experience VR in an empty space, Dreamscape made them experience it in a space full of mechanics, and it was devised to stimulate various senses other than just sight and hearing.

Curse of the Lost Pearl: A Magic Projector Adventure

“Curse of the Lost Pearl” is “The Curse of the Lost Pearl” when translated into Japanese, but in terms of content, it was about experiencing ancient ruins like the movie Indiana Jones. I went to search for pearls in the old ruins, and in the process, holes were drilled inside the cave, spears came out, descended deep underground in an elevator-like vehicle, and finally escaped from the ruins on a trolley coaster, and at the end, it included all of the adventurous elements, making me fully experience the potential and strengths of VR. I was impressed by the ingenuity unique to VR, such as having the experiencer hold something like a torch, and the 6 experiencers were divided into 2 groups of 3 people each in the virtual space, and aiming for the goal from a different route.

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The Blu: Deep Rescue

“The Blue” is a famous American VR studio by DreamscapeWevrIt is content created jointly with the company, and the participants become divers at the Oceanographic Research Institute and go search for missing whales. Starting with an explanation of the mission at the Marine Research Institute on the Water, it was an experience similar to “Curse of the Lost Pearl” until it descended deep into the sea on an elevator-like vehicle, but then it was characteristic that they switched one by one to another underwater scooter and moved underwater. This underwater scooter has realistic steering wheels and meter-shaped structures placed in the experience zone, making it an experience of operating a virtual vehicle while actually being caught by the steering wheel.

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Alien Zoo

“Alien Zoo” is zoo experience content where you go to see imaginary dinosaur-like creatures, and you almost get attacked by monsters along the way, and you exterminate them using a controller (given a rod-shaped item in the experience zone), which is all experienced people. Also, I was able to actually touch the dinosaurs that appeared, and when I peeked through the gap between the HMD, the dinosaur's head was attached to the tip of the robot arm, and visually it was an HMD, and ingenuity was used to make people use actual hands in terms of vision. Furthermore, in the middle of the experience, there are parts where water falls, etc., so there are various effects that stimulate the five senses that go beyond simply watching images.

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About Dreamscape Immersive

Dreamscape is operated by Dreamscape Immersive. This company is the total amount from famous film-related companies and celebrities such as AMC Theatres, which owns 1000 theaters around the world, the film production company Warner Bros., and film director Steven SpielbergAcquired an investment of approximately 4 billion yenI'm doing it. It is about 10 minutes of content per work, and the production cost is about 150 million yen to 200 million yen (References). Many people involved in movies are participating, and it seems that they plan to expand similar experience facilities around the world in the future, and it is expected that content will increase even more.