15th November 2019- Thinkwell links up with CAVU, DreamCraft, Framestore to thrill ZHUHAI, China — In a high-powered collaboration, design and production company Thinkwell Group has led a team comprising media-based ride system developer CAVU Designwerks, integrated motion platform / VR specialist DreamCraft Attractions (a CAVU sister company), and animation / visual effects house [...]
12th November 2019- Entering the world of The Twilight Saga, Midnight Ride is a VR experience taking guests on a motorcycle thrill ride with Jacob and his Wolf Pack. Using a real-world motorcycle on a user controlled motion base, guests wearing headsets ride through a moonlit setting. On the ride, vampires are on the [...]
6 November 2019- Theme parks: Ride to the future with Twilight & DreamCraft Theme parks are magical places where high technology and high capacity collide, and people can experience the future first-hand. This year, DreamCraft Attractions and CAVU Designwerks launched The Twilight Saga: Midnight Ride attraction at one of China’s premier theme parks. Not only is hand tracking from Ultraleap [...]
5 November 2019- Ben Coxworth/New Atlas Dreamcraft Attractions animation director Tony De Waal demonstrates the DreamSet headset at the VR/AR Global Summit Virtual reality headsets are increasingly being put to use at theme parks, in setups that move around in accordance to what wearers are experiencing in the VR world. A new modular headset [...]
1st November 2019- Entering the world of The Twilight Saga, Midnight Ride is a VR experience taking guests on a motorcycle thrill ride with Jacob and his Wolf Pack. Using a real-world motorcycle on a user controlled motion base, guests wearing headsets ride through a moonlit setting. On the ride, vampires are on the [...]
7th August 2019- Battle For Eire maximizes rider capacity with a streamlined fitting process. Despite serving as a perfect tool for enhancing and augmenting conventional thrill rides, VR technology has yet to find its footing in the world of theme park entertainment. We’ve seen multiple attempts at integrating the technology in the past, such [...]
1st August 2019- BACKGROUND Busch Gardens Williamsburg is a stunning 135-acre action-adventure park based on authentic European themes. It has been voted the World’s Most Beautiful Theme Park by the National Amusement Park Historical Association every year since 1990. Fully aware that guests are always looking for the next and best thing in entertainment, [...]
1st August 2019- Lionsgate Entertainment World (LEW), Asia's first movie-themed vertical theme park, has opened during the first phase of Novotown, an integrated tourism and entertainment destination on the island of Hengqin in Zhuhai, China. The 240,000 sq ft (22296 sq m) park, which opened on 31 July 19, was designed by Thinkwell Group, [...]
24th July 2019- Hollywood film studio Lionsgate opens its first adult-oriented Asian theme park this Summer with Lionsgate Entertainment World, launching in Hengqin, Zhuhai. The studio partnered with the Thinkwell Group and Village Roadshow Theme Parks to create the stunning movie-themed vertical park over multiple floors. Lionsgate Entertainment World worked with CAVU Designwerks, Dreamcraft Attractions, [...]
3rd July 2019- Blooloop partnered with AVIXA at its recent InfoComm exhibition and trade show to deliver an education session on VR attractions trends.InfoComm is a world-leading audiovisual trade fair. It is also the biggest in North America for audiovisual (AV) communications professionals.Ready player two?The session examined how out-of-home VR attractions are evolving to create experiences that [...]
