The Hollywood Reporter: Landmark Entertainment Group Staging Virtual Reality “World’s Fair”
Link to original article: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/behind-screen/landmark-entertainment-group-staging-virtual-832363 Plans are to combine entertainment, social interaction, education and shopping. Landmark Entertainment Group -- the L.A.-based producer of such attractions as Jurassic Park: The Ride -- intends to launch what it calls a “Virtual World’s Fair,” for use with virtual reality head sets. The concept is to create a daily virtual reality experience, combining
The Verge: The Virtual World’s Fair is where VR hype meets theme parks
Landmark Entertainment Group wants to put 'total theater' in your home Original Article: http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/26/9615024/landmark-virtual-reality-worlds-fair-pavilion-of-me For decades, Landmark Entertainment Group has been synonymous with theme park attractions. It develops rides and theatrical experiences based on movies likeTerminator 2, Jurassic Park, and the James Bond series. But to founder and CEO Tony Christopher, traditional theme parks are just the beginn
Road to VR: Building A Better Mousetrap: A “Landmark” Dream Of The Ultimate Content Platform
Original Article: http://www.roadtovr.com/building-a-better-mousetrap-a-landmark-dream-of-the-ultimate-content-platform/ Noah Nelson is back with another installment of Immersion Point and this week digs into Landmark Entertainment’s recent unveiling of their new ‘Pavilion of Me’ project, an immersive content platform designed to be the first step on the road to enticing users into the next generation of VR theme parks. With the virtual reality hardware battle nice all heated
Fortune: Landmark is Launching a VR social platform in 2016, and here’s why
Original Link: http://fortune.com/2015/10/15/landmark-launching-vr-social-platform/ Landmark is building a VR social platform as part of a larger home VR business plan for the company. Next year, Landmark Entertainment Group is rolling out a VR social platform designed to work with Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Sony PlayStation VR, and hundreds of other VR headsets. According to Tony Christopher, CEO and founder of Landmark Entertainment Group, the idea for the Pavilion of Me (POM)
Digital Trends: Landmark Is Working On A Virtual Reality World’s Fair
Original Article: http://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/landmark-vr-worlds-fair/ Technology is finally catching up with Landmark Entertainment Group’s big ideas. The global entertainment design firm announced Thursday that it is collaborating with Pavilion of Me to create a virtual reality experience called the Virtual World’s Fair that will launch in 2017. “Some of the virtual reality projects we are developing today are based on ideas we had back in the mid 1990s but ab
VR Focus: LEG Announces Virtual World’s Fair VR Experience
Original Article: http://vrfocus.com/archives/23541/leg-announces-virtual-worlds-fair-vr-experience/ Landmark Entertainment Group (LEG) a theme park design company has combined the World’s Fair tradition with modern virtual reality (VR) to create the concept for the Virtual World’s Fair. The VR experience mixes real-time social interaction, entertainment, education, and shopping, just like a traditional world’s fair, but all from the comfort of your own home. The experience h
Video Ink: Virtual World’s Fair to Mix Entertainment, Shopping, Social Media and Travel
Original Link: http://www.thevideoink.com/news/virtual-worlds-fair-to-mix-entertainment-shopping-social-media-and-travel/#.ViBQvRNViko Say goodbye to long lines, crowds and the disagreeable idea of direct human contact. They will be non-issues with the Virtual World’s Fair, a planned VR theme park unveiled today by Landmark Entertainment Group, the company behind such Universal Studios attractions as “Kongfrontation,” “Terminator 2 3D,” “Jurassic Park: The Ride,” and “The Ama
Venture Beat: A ride-making company wants to bring World’s Fairs to virtual reality
Original Article: http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/15/a-ride-making-company-wants-to-bring-worlds-fairs-to-virtual-reality/ Virtual reality won’t just be fun and games. It could become a huge opportunity to teach and learn. The Landmark Entertainment Group announced today that it’s working on a Virtual World’s Fair. World’s Fairs used to be major events that would bring together cultures and show off new technologies. Bringing that concept to virtual reality could benefit scien
Variety: Landmark Entertainment Is Building A Virtual Reality World’s Fair
Original Article: http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/landmark-entertainment-virtual-worlds-fair-vr-1201618492/ Landmark Entertainment President and CEO Tony Christopher thinks it’s about time that the world joined virtual reality: Landmark is unveiling plans to build what it calls a Virtual world’s fair, which could eventually house hundreds of pavilions and become a space for millions of consumers to meet, enjoy entertainment, shop and even take civic action. “It’s the wor
Road to VR: Landmark are Creating a Virtual Reality Theme Park You Can Enjoy at Home
Original Link: http://www.roadtovr.com/landmark-are-creating-a-virtual-reality-theme-park-you-can-enjoy-at-home/ Landmark Entertainment Group are one of the leading organisations in the out of home entertainment industry, having been instrumental in devising over 100 ‘major’ attractions worldwide since 1980. Now, they’re leveraging that experience to create a new virtual reality theme park people can enjoy from the comfort of their homes, the new project is to debut as the ‘V
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