Sunday, October 2, 2016

Virtual Reality Halloween by The Bay

I find myself filled with anticipation at this particular point of the space time continuum. This upcoming weekend both California’s Great America and Six Flags Discovery Kingdom will be debuting new virtual reality experiences, and your humble narrator is ready to jump right to it. On a Friday I was at the California’s Great America media preview of Fear VR (also coming to Knotts Berry Farm), and the next day sees me at the Passholder preview for the Revenge of the Gargoyles version of Kong at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom.

Admittedly, my own VR experience is limited. I’ve yet to go to Six Flags Magic Mountain since VR was added to Revolution, and am a spoiler avoider. I remember a Berkeley arcade where I strapped on a helmet during the Reagan administration, but it was technologically limited, maybe slightly above Pong, a gimmick. About 10-12 years ago I got roped into some upcharge thing at Magic Mountain which was awful. And, well, that’s all. But that was a long time ago tech wise, and in that time we’ve gone from online videos [sic] that were really little more than a series of blurry stills to actual high definition clips of the last Disneyland set by Bill Hill & the Hillbillys.

Not sure exactly what to expect, but am excited about it. In the end, I hope to say there is no winner or loser. Neither of them has to be better than the other, different will suffice. In just the last week there have been ads for a VR system for Samsung appearing on our television, and care to guess who is manufacturing the park’s systems? Also, virtual reality has been reported as quite the rage from the just held Tokyo Game Show, so this may well be the year when this technology has hit the level needed for mass penetration.Read on to see what happened.

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