Holoverse
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Holoverse is an amusement attraction on the Gold Coast in Australia that opened in June 2016. The centre is owned by a company called Euclideon and uses recent entertainment technology that creates artificial environments and objects that are described as holograms. The centre was partially funded by the Australian Government[1] and opened by Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk[2] The centre contains 40 booths, is the first in Australia, [3] and is said to house the largest number of them in the world.[citation needed]
Experiences
New content is released by the mother company Euclideon every three months. While primarily for entertainment, other experiences focus on educational content for schools and interactive learning experiences. So far the centre has four experiences / sessions: [4]
- Experiences
- False Eden
- Fly Over the Gold Coast
- Holographic Planetarium (Two parts)
Expansion
In late 2017 / early 2018, the next Holoverse centre will open in Dubai, and another in Chicago by the end of 2018.
Founders
Holoverse is owned by Euclideon Entertainment, founded by Bruce Dell in 2017.
The Technology
The technology, when used in other fields, is often referred to as a Virtual Reality Cave or VR CAVE environment. To create[1] a Hologram, a series of items are used including projectors, flat and angular surfaces, 3D glasses, tracking domes, tracking spheres and 3D animated, and graphical scenarios containing millions of tiny digital spheres called "atoms". In many cases there is also the presence of laser scanned objects.
The technology differs from standard Virtual Reality. With standard Virtual Reality, people wear screens over their eyes, the headsets through which they are unable to see their own torso, arms or legs. Whereas in a VR CAVE, instead of going into the computer game, the person wears clear glasses and can see their own body, the computer-generated objects appearing to be in the real world with them.
References
- ^ "Government Grants Pump $13 million into New Inventions". StartUp Smart. 7 March 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
- ^ "Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk Discusses the State of Play on Queensland Day". The Courier Mail. 6 June 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
- ^ "Australia Just Got Its First Holographic Arcade" Gizmodo. 4 June 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2017
- ^ "Swim WIth Turtles, Climb Buildings and Go On Safari, Without Leaving Southport" Blank. 10 June 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2017