Chinese video streaming platform iQiyi has opened of its immersive virtual reality experience in Shanghai.
Known as the Luoyang VR Project, it opens with an immersive theatre experience and follows with a 50-minute VR-powered journey that takes the participants back 1,300 years in time to the ancient city of Luoyang.
Sensory-simulation techniques are used to give participants the impression that they are walking - or riding in boats and other vehicles - through a fantasy world experiencing high winds, waterfalls, and explosions. Participants can also shoot virtual arrows at “enemies.”
The VR experience is based on iQiyi’s 2021 television drama Luoyang, set in the ancient Chinese capital city of the same name.
While resembling a theme park ride, the virtual reality experience only takes up 300sq.m.
