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The Secret of the Pyramid Builders, a second Ancient Egypt title from Excurio, is running at Immersive Journey in Tokyo. The free-roam educational VR experience launched at the venue earlier in summer 2026. Alicia Haddick, who covers location-based VR for UploadVR, reviewed it on 7 September 2026.
Immersive Journey is a dedicated VR venue built around history titles. Visitors book a slot, put on an HTC Vive headset, and walk through the space. The title is also available at other Excurio locations.
Hand tracking gives each visitor a sense of where their body is in the space, rather than letting them handle objects.
The venue “uses a large open room with tracking markers to help the headset understand its location in 3D space”, Haddick wrote. Visitors “follow the direction of the story by physically walking from place to place to progress the narrative”. Anyone who steps outside the boundary is guided back in.
Other visitors, moving through other memories at the same time, appear as particles, which prevents collisions.
ScanPyramids scanned the interiors of the Great Pyramids and found large open spaces that nobody had recorded. The group calls them voids.
The standing explanation for the construction was an external ramp. At pyramid scale that ramp would have to be larger than the pyramid it served. An internal ramp is one proposed explanation for the voids.
The title visualises both the external-ramp and internal-ramp theories and imposes them onto the pyramids. Visitors also read hieroglyphic texts that later research identified as remnants from the pyramid builders. The title teaches updated information about the role of the Queen’s Chamber and the burial tombs.
Mona, the young Egyptologist who guided Horizon of Khufu, guides this one too. So does the talking cat who may be the god Bastet. Mona refers back to her earlier group inside the script, and some of the locations return.
Haddick recommended this title over Horizon of Khufu for a first-time visitor. She wrote: “Fewer cramped corridors and more open spaces with NPCs and plenty to see in all directions.” She called it “a wonder to behold”, and wrote that she “felt a part of discovering the creation of the pyramids”.
The VR Collective reported on 8 August 2026 that Horizon of Khufu runs 45 minutes and needs at least 1,000 square metres. Up to 130 visitors move through the space at the same time. That is a stream-through model: groups enter behind each other and keep walking, the way a haunted house loads.
Excurio sells cultural titles into museums and dedicated venues across several countries. The VR Collective reported on 25 July 2026 on the studio’s catalogue alongside the Versailles XR attraction.
For museum and cultural venue operators, Excurio’s Tokyo title is a second Ancient Egypt experience built on the same guide characters. For VR venue operators comparing content, the published figures are Horizon of Khufu’s: 45 minutes, at least 1,000 square metres, up to 130 visitors at once.
What is The Secret of the Pyramid Builders? A free-roam educational VR experience made by Excurio about how the Great Pyramids of Egypt were built. It runs at Immersive Journey in Tokyo and launched there earlier in summer 2026.
What hardware does the educational VR experience use? An HTC Vive headset with hand tracking, in a large open tracked space fitted with markers. Hand tracking gives visitors their bearings rather than letting them handle objects.
How do visitors move through the experience? They walk. The narrative advances as each visitor physically moves from place to place, and anyone crossing the boundary is guided back.
What is ScanPyramids and why does the title use it? ScanPyramids is the group that scanned the pyramids’ interiors and found unrecorded open spaces, called voids. The title uses those findings to show the internal-ramp and external-ramp construction theories in three dimensions.
How does it relate to Horizon of Khufu? It reuses the same guide characters, Mona and the talking cat, and refers back to the earlier story. The VR Collective reported that Horizon of Khufu runs 45 minutes, needs at least 1,000 square metres and carries up to 130 visitors at a time.
