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Speaker 1: I'm rich Dedmiro and this is rich on Tech Daily Today.

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Speaker 1: I want to tell you about something called Alien Zoo.

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Speaker 1: This is a VR experience from a company called Dreamscape Immersive.

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Speaker 1: I experienced it earlier this week at Westfield Century City

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Speaker 1: aka Century City Mall. It's basically a pop up VR experience.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like a combination movie three hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty degree world that you actually participate in. So what

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Speaker 1: does that mean? Well, you get a ticket, they're twenty dollars.

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Speaker 1: You go inside. There's six people at a time, and

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Speaker 1: you get suited up with a bunch of VR equipment,

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Speaker 1: including like a a headset, a backpack, and some sensors

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Speaker 1: on your hands and your legs. And next thing you know,

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Speaker 1: you are transported into a virtual world. And when I

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Speaker 1: say you're transported, the neat thing about this VR experience

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Speaker 1: versus all others is that you actually see yourself in

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Speaker 1: the experience and the other people that are around you.

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Speaker 1: How do they do that? Well, it's pretty mad. You'll

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Speaker 1: just have to experience it to see it. But you

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Speaker 1: can look in the mirror and see your virtual avatar reflected,

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Speaker 1: you know, reflecting to yourself and making the movements that

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Speaker 1: you're making. You can walk around and basically you're brought

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Speaker 1: to this world that's sort of an alien zoo of

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Speaker 1: the future. It reminds me a lot of Jurassic Park.

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Speaker 1: So yes, things go wrong at the end and you

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Speaker 1: have to figure a way out, but it's really really

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Speaker 1: well done, and you've got some great minds behind this,

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Speaker 1: including Steven Spielberg, former head of dream Works. You've got

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Speaker 1: a lot of different people that know what they're doing

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Speaker 1: when it comes to entertainment, and they're looking for the

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Speaker 1: next big thing and this is definitely it. I was

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Speaker 1: so impressed with this experience that lasts just about twelve minutes,

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Speaker 1: but you come away thinking, Wow, this is really the

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Speaker 1: future of how we're going to be entertained. You can

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Speaker 1: touch things in this virtual world. You can feel them,

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Speaker 1: you smell things, you feel wetness from certain animals that

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Speaker 1: are let's say, breathing on you or you and it

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Speaker 1: is just amazing. You have to really experience it to

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Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. Will you get sick? So

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Speaker 1: if you're worried about motion sickness or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: I did not experience any of that, but I've never

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Speaker 1: really experienced that in the VR world. I don't really

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Speaker 1: think it's a concern here because they're using such high

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Speaker 1: end equipment and it feels very natural and very real,

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Speaker 1: so I think you should be okay. There's nothing to

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Speaker 1: be scared of. It's not a scary experience. But they

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Speaker 1: do recommend I think you have to be ten and

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Speaker 1: up with a parent if you want to do it.

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Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't recommend it for super little kids. I'd

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Speaker 1: like to bring my son, who's six, but I think

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Speaker 1: he's a little bit too young for this. I don't

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Speaker 1: even think he'd really understand what's going on because the

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Speaker 1: divide between the real and the imaginary is so is

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Speaker 1: so weird, like you just don't know what's real and

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Speaker 1: what's fake. So definitely go if you can. It's only

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Speaker 1: available for a month again. It's called Alien Zoo VR.

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Speaker 1: It's at the Westfield Century City. Tickets are twenty dollars.

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Speaker 1: They are selling out fast. I don't know if they're

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Speaker 1: going to extend it past the month that they're going

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Speaker 1: for right now, but I think with just seeing how

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Speaker 1: popular it is online, hopefully they extend it again. If

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Speaker 1: you want to see my entire review, you can go

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Speaker 1: to my YouTube page. I've got it on there. Just

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Speaker 1: find the link at richon tech dot tv again alien

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Speaker 1: Zoo super impressed. Well done to Dreamscape Immersive. Good job

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Speaker 1: on this, and thanks so much for listening. I'm rich

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Speaker 1: Demiro rich on tech dot tv. I'll talk to you

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Speaker 1: next time.