Speaker 1: I'm rich Dedmiro and this is rich on Tech Daily Today.
Speaker 1: I want to tell you about something called Alien Zoo.
Speaker 1: This is a VR experience from a company called Dreamscape Immersive.
Speaker 1: I experienced it earlier this week at Westfield Century City
Speaker 1: aka Century City Mall. It's basically a pop up VR experience.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a combination movie three hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty degree world that you actually participate in. So what
Speaker 1: does that mean? Well, you get a ticket, they're twenty dollars.
Speaker 1: You go inside. There's six people at a time, and
Speaker 1: you get suited up with a bunch of VR equipment,
Speaker 1: including like a a headset, a backpack, and some sensors
Speaker 1: on your hands and your legs. And next thing you know,
Speaker 1: you are transported into a virtual world. And when I
Speaker 1: say you're transported, the neat thing about this VR experience
Speaker 1: versus all others is that you actually see yourself in
Speaker 1: the experience and the other people that are around you.
Speaker 1: How do they do that? Well, it's pretty mad. You'll
Speaker 1: just have to experience it to see it. But you
Speaker 1: can look in the mirror and see your virtual avatar reflected,
Speaker 1: you know, reflecting to yourself and making the movements that
Speaker 1: you're making. You can walk around and basically you're brought
Speaker 1: to this world that's sort of an alien zoo of
Speaker 1: the future. It reminds me a lot of Jurassic Park.
Speaker 1: So yes, things go wrong at the end and you
Speaker 1: have to figure a way out, but it's really really
Speaker 1: well done, and you've got some great minds behind this,
Speaker 1: including Steven Spielberg, former head of dream Works. You've got
Speaker 1: a lot of different people that know what they're doing
Speaker 1: when it comes to entertainment, and they're looking for the
Speaker 1: next big thing and this is definitely it. I was
Speaker 1: so impressed with this experience that lasts just about twelve minutes,
Speaker 1: but you come away thinking, Wow, this is really the
Speaker 1: future of how we're going to be entertained. You can
Speaker 1: touch things in this virtual world. You can feel them,
Speaker 1: you smell things, you feel wetness from certain animals that
Speaker 1: are let's say, breathing on you or you and it
Speaker 1: is just amazing. You have to really experience it to
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about. Will you get sick? So
Speaker 1: if you're worried about motion sickness or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I did not experience any of that, but I've never
Speaker 1: really experienced that in the VR world. I don't really
Speaker 1: think it's a concern here because they're using such high
Speaker 1: end equipment and it feels very natural and very real,
Speaker 1: so I think you should be okay. There's nothing to
Speaker 1: be scared of. It's not a scary experience. But they
Speaker 1: do recommend I think you have to be ten and
Speaker 1: up with a parent if you want to do it.
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't recommend it for super little kids. I'd
Speaker 1: like to bring my son, who's six, but I think
Speaker 1: he's a little bit too young for this. I don't
Speaker 1: even think he'd really understand what's going on because the
Speaker 1: divide between the real and the imaginary is so is
Speaker 1: so weird, like you just don't know what's real and
Speaker 1: what's fake. So definitely go if you can. It's only
Speaker 1: available for a month again. It's called Alien Zoo VR.
Speaker 1: It's at the Westfield Century City. Tickets are twenty dollars.
Speaker 1: They are selling out fast. I don't know if they're
Speaker 1: going to extend it past the month that they're going
Speaker 1: for right now, but I think with just seeing how
Speaker 1: popular it is online, hopefully they extend it again. If
Speaker 1: you want to see my entire review, you can go
Speaker 1: to my YouTube page. I've got it on there. Just
Speaker 1: find the link at richon tech dot tv again alien
Speaker 1: Zoo super impressed. Well done to Dreamscape Immersive. Good job
Speaker 1: on this, and thanks so much for listening. I'm rich
Speaker 1: Demiro rich on tech dot tv. I'll talk to you
Speaker 1: next time.