What They Say
Protocol’s Next Up letter gave an update on Dreamscape that is a player in the location-based VR industry which has been hit hard by the pandemic and the blog said that “Sandbox VR was forced into bankruptcy restructuring, Spaces sold and The Void shut down permanently”.
Dreamscape is backed by AMC and opened locations in the summer, and has a new ‘Men in Black’ VR experience opening. The firm’s CEO said that business is back to the level before the pandemic. Over the last year and a half it has worked hard to make up for the closure of its VR centres by boosting its education and training businesses. That side of the business includes a partnership with Arizona State University to develop an educational VR experience.
The firm believes that “Giving people agency within VR” is a key part of driving the experience. The firm has resumed work on a new location in New Jersey.
An interesting comment was that the firm thinks it is around a year from eliminating backpacks to allow beaming of content direct to headsets using 5G.
What We Think
It’s good to see that this application is getting going again. (BR)
