If you've ever experienced a Dreamscape or Void VR installation, this process will all feel very familiar. Mechanically there's a ton going on here, but the staff are more than ready to handle any questions or help if anything goes wrong during set up or in the game. According to the website, both games are wheelchair accessible but only one wheelchair can be accommodated per trip through the game. If you're under 13, you must be accompanied by an adult with their own ticket. When you book an appointment for one of these games, you're allowed to bypass the typically long line to enter the store and shop at your leisure after.
The Harry Potter NYC staff are allowing anyone over the age of 10 and above 48 inches (~1.2m) tall to participate in the 10-15 minute VR games, each of which takes about ten additional minutes of set up to prepare for. Add all of that tech together, and each person is wearing about $4,000 in hardware before you count the combat wand and seated broom for flying.
#Harry potter flying broomstick Pc#
For these games, Dreamscape is using HP Reverb G2 headsets with HP Z VR PC backpacks. You start each by walking into a staging room, where you gear up with trackers on your limbs and a computer backpack to power the headset. has partnered with the popular VR creators at WeVR and Dreamscape, the team behind the Dreamworks Dragons Flight Academy and Curse of the Lost Pearl among other popular attractions, to build these games. The HP VR backpack used in the Harry Potter NYC Store Each experience is designed to support up to six people at a time, though during this early rollout the games will be limited to four people at once. If you look downstairs, you'll see the hallway leading to Wizards Take Flight. If you take the stairs up, you find yourself at Chaos at Hogwarts. While the middle floor of the massive store is all about shopping, tucked away on the top and bottom floors are a pair of rooms dedicated to VR. Read more: Best VR headsets to buy in 2021 Adding VR to the HP NYC Store I was invited to take an early look at these experiences and learned about what it takes to build these experiences for such a broad audience. But starting July 15, two new sections of the store will open to explore on-site, but in virtual reality - Harry Potter: Chaos at Hogwarts and Harry Potter: Wizards Take Flight. Since it opened a month and a half ago, everyone who has been fortunate enough to enter the capacity-limited Harry Potter store in NYC has been treated to a visually stunning experience.
0 kommentar(er)
