VR Twister
VR Twister
it'll twist your mellons
This classic fairground ride got a 21st century twist.
The twister is a spinning circles-within-circles flat ride. It whisks riders across the stage, between points on its outer perimeter. Riders alternate between moments of exhilarating high speed and getting squished in hand brake turns. You can now take a “Ride with VR” and things will start to get really freaky. You’ll leave the earth behind as you ascend into the heavens, where you’ll go zooming around an abstract candy-coloured world of epic proportions.
Premiere on Brighton Palace Pier.
The design, installation and operation of Ride with VR have been produced to meet standards governed by the UK’s Amusement Device Inspection Procedures Scheme. “VR Twister” is Studio Go Go’s second virtual experience to be created for the Twister.
Twisted Forest
Twisted Forest
A rider's brain is willing to do way more work than you might imagine - and you should let it.
We created Twisted Forest to expand and test the boundaries of different types of virtual motion that a rider might perceive to be real, and – more importantly – enjoyable. The original creative brief started as follows:
“The world is an amazon-like forest – thick and verdant. The forest is criss-crossed by straight man (or alien?) made canals that connect perfectly-circular ponds of water. The network from an aerial view looks like a printed circuit board – reminiscent of crop circles. The canals and ponds are bounded by concrete paths. These bodies of water are cut straight into the forest, just like crop circles into corn. The canals run at 0, 60, or 120 degrees”
Rider reactions from premiere at Adventureland, New Brighton.
Real time location and content generation on an Oculus Go headset.
“At the centre of each pond is a spinning structure with a central vertical telescopic spindle. At the top of the central spindle are hinged three equispaced articulated (JCB digger) arms that reach outward from the central spindle. There is a vertical outer spindle at the outermost tip of each arm. From each outer spindle a rotating cruciform structure is suspended. Two riders are suspended beneath each arm, at the four tips of the cruciform structure. The movements described are initially similar to the Twister ride. The arms of the cruciform structure telescope out and back, providing a first insight that this ride is not going to be usual…” And so it continues.