VR Park Dubai debuts as the largest virtual and augmented reality leisure center

StarVR's comprehensive location-based entertainment solutions deliver ultra-high-definition, fully immersive experiences at The Dubai Mall's VR Park.

Emaar Entertainment, the leisure and entertainment subsidiary of Emaar Properties, has opened VR Park, a virtual and augmented reality attraction located at The Dubai Mall.

The Dubai Mall, the largest shopping and entertainment center in the world, forms part of Downtown Dubai, the flagship of Emaar Properties that has 3.657,6 kilometers, an area equivalent to 200 soccer fields.

The VR Park covers more than 22.000 square meters of surface and occupies two floors of The Dubai Mall, positioning itself as the largest indoor virtual reality theme park and the first of its kind in the Middle East. In this center, which focuses on the concept of “shared escapism”, immersive games are combined, interactive and educational trips. Some attractions in which virtual and augmented reality technologies have been implemented.

“VR Park is the latest revolutionary attraction presented by Emaar Entertainment, that offers pioneering experiences in collaboration with its partners, including StarVR. While providing unmatched entertainment experiences, “We are also pushing the boundaries of innovation for the industry and inviting visitors to Challenge Reality with our entertainment destinations.”, says Damien Latham, CEO of Emaar Entertainment.

The company StarVR Corporation participates in this project with its location-based virtual reality entertainment solution. In collaboration with Starbreeze Studios, the main content provider of the park, offers comprehensive virtual reality solutions, location based, with custom hardware, on-site installation, Technician training and after-service assistance for most Starbreeze attractions.

“We are very proud of StarVR's location-based entertainment solutions used in the majority of experiences at the newly opened VR Park in Dubai. With a high resolution, a field of vision 210 grades and a design made specifically for professional use, “Visitors will be able to feel an immersion of premium VR experiences that are far above home entertainment”, commented Bo Andersson Klint, director de StarVR Corporation.

At its launch, Visitors will have the chance to enjoy a variety of popular Starbreeze VR content in ultra-high resolution (5K) and a field of view of 210 degrees than only StarVR headsets (HDM) can offer.

You can enter the world of Walking Dead, where the apocalypse has arrived in Overkill's The Walking Dead – Outbreak; Fight as a huge cybernetic ape armed to the teeth against furious robots in Ape-X; play the role of the famous assassin John Wick, en John Wick Chronicles; or experience an exciting scene from the Universal Studies film by 2017, The Mummy, as an agent on a mission to capture the ancient princess Ahmanet in The Mummy Prodigium Strike.

StarVR solutions come equipped with a VR HMD headset, Designed from the ground up for business and professional entertainment, offering 5K resolution and field of view of 210 degrees. This solution includes a high-speed optical tracking system, which can accurately record movement on scale, to deliver an ultra-immersive virtual reality experience for location-based entertainment systems (LBE).

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