A VIRTUAL REALITY ‘THEME PARK’ IS COMING TO LAS VEGAS IN 2017
The currently unnamed venue, intended for an October 2017 opening in a Strip-adjacent location that Bricklin can’t yet reveal, will have at its heart a lounge that features vintage arcade games and individual VR sets playing music videos and other short-form content. The lounge will serve food, cocktails and—why not?—liquid nitrogen ice cream: “It’s kinda nerdy, but I like it,” Bricklin says.
Radiating outward will be several themed tunnels, each one leading you “to a virtual reality world.” One will be military-themed; another will lead to “the world’s greatest remote-control race course,” featuring state-of-the-art motion rigs connected to one-tenth scale cars with mounted cameras. “The cars have unbelievable power—they can go over 100 miles per hour,” Bricklin says.
Other worlds are still forming, as Bricklin watches emerging VR technologies and conceives of new ways to use them for entertainment. We’ll have to wait until next fall to find out just how far into the future those tunnels go.
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