Virtual reality cinema and arcade opens in Salt Lake City
Instead of entering a giant theater with a lot of seats and a big screen, there are rows of rotating chairs of Virtualities where a viewer will sit at and put on a virtual reality headset.
“Since virtual reality is normally super expensive, this was a way to make it accessible to people who normally don’t have the means or space to access it,” Burningham said in an interview with Deseret News.
According to Burningham, there are a few virtual reality cinemas and arcades in the world already, including the VR Cinema in Amsterdam and Zero Latency in Australia. A pop-up virtual reality cinema opened in Toronto for a few months this summer, according to the Toronto Sun, and the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that IMAX is planning to launch a half dozen virtual reality locations around the globe this year.
Currently available at Virtualities are various short movie and gaming experiences including a sci-fi film, roller coasters, skydiving, swimming with sharks and hunting zombies. Viewers also have the option of creating artwork in virtual reality and printing it off using 3-D printers.
There are also various humanitarian videos available to watch at Virtualities.
Burningham said he views the current cinema and arcade as just a starting point.
Virtualities is on the second floor at The Gateway, across from Discovery Gateway and next to Zumiez. Pricing starts at $10 for 10 minutes for the arcade and $10 for 15 minutes for the cinema. For additional information, visit the company's website at virtualities.co.
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