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Time Pavilion, a VR Heritage Museum in Baku’s Old City, Recreates the Streets of 1919
Two VR headsets on a wooden bench in a stone-vaulted museum gallery, in front of a sepia projection of an early twentieth-century city street
Time Pavilion opened on 19 October 2026 in Icherisheher, Baku's walled old city. Its 40-minute virtual reality visit recreates the…
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Disney and Lightstorm License a Touring Avatar Immersive Walkthrough Experience for Niagara Falls
Preliminary concept rendering of the acrobatic finale of AVATAR: Guardians of Eywa, an immersive walkthrough experience: performers on a rainforest stage before a silhouetted audience. Rendering via Niagara Parks press materials.
Disney Theatrical Group and Lightstorm Entertainment have licensed AVATAR: Guardians of Eywa, a walkthrough that moves from venue to venue.…
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Grant Thornton Puts UK Immersive Attractions Spending at £7.4bn, Counting ABBA Voyage’s Digital Concert
Visitors seen from behind in a dark gallery with abstract colours projected floor to ceiling, an AI-generated illustration of an immersive attraction
Grant Thornton estimates UK immersive attractions generated £7.4bn in expenditure in 2025, beyond ticket sales. The formats its Experience Economy…
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Sandbox VR Counts Its Times Square VR Venue as Location 100
A Sandbox VR venue lobby with a lit Sandbox VR screen and a wall of haptic vests and headsets. Photo courtesy of Sandbox VR.
Sandbox VR opens its first New York City venue at 777 Seventh Avenue in Times Square in late October 2026.…
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The Venue Premieres in Kaohsiung With 24 Screenings in a 30-Seat VR360 Cinema
An audience seated in rows of swivel chairs wears VR headsets in a dim brick-walled VR360 cinema lit in magenta
The Venue, an animated VR360 film by Evan Siegal and Maahir Shah, had its world premiere at the Kaohsiung Film…
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Powerhouse Arts Hosts the Prado’s Touring VR Art Exhibition in Brooklyn at $30 a Ticket
Visitors in VR headsets walk through a converted brick power station loft used for a touring VR art exhibition
Powerhouse Arts opened ACCIONA Cultura's Prado VR show in Gowanus on 1 October 2026 at $30 for adults. ACCIONA Cultura…
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Science Tokyo Study Ranks Emotional Connection First for Regional Museum Digital Exhibits
An empty Japanese painter's studio with tatami mats and shoji screens, being 3D scanned by a tablet on a tripod (AI-generated illustration)
Institute of Science Tokyo researchers surveyed 266 people about a digital exhibit at the Ryushi Memorial Museum in Ota City.…
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Factory International Stages Ian McKellen in Mixed Reality Theatre Play An Ark at £31.50 and £36.50
Empty wooden chairs under soft stage light in a dark arts venue, with a pair of slim mixed reality glasses resting on an audience seat in the foreground
Factory International will stage An Ark, the mixed reality play starring Ian McKellen, at Aviva Studios in Manchester from 27…
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Invelon Buys a Majority of byAR, a Heritage XR Studio Acquisition That Takes It Into Portugal
Projection-mapped images of pottery fragments and a Roman mosaic on the stone walls of an empty heritage museum gallery, with amphora shards in a glass case (AI-generated illustration)
Invelon, the Lleida XR integrator, bought a majority stake in the Portuguese heritage-exhibit studio byAR in September 2026. byAR's chief…
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A Sandbox VR Venue Franchise Owner Bought His Building, Putting Half of $3 Million Investment Into Real Estate
A former drugstore corner building in a small downtown, converted into a VR venue franchise and lit from inside at dusk
Arthur Hengler paid $1.5 million for the former CVS under his Sandbox VR venue franchise in Winston-Salem, half of the…
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Fast Company Names Excurio’s Large-Scale Free-Roam VR System LBXR Pulse a Next Big Thing in Tech
Visitors in VR headsets on an LBXR Pulse large-scale free-roam VR floor, with callouts to four Excurio experiences running in parallel. Image: Excurio / LBXR Pulse
Fast Company named Excurio's LBXR Pulse a 2026 Next Big Things in Tech honoree. The large-scale free-roam VR system runs…
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oasisVRX Expands to a Second VR Entertainment Destination in Princeton, New Jersey
A free-roam VR arena with personal VR stations and motion racing simulators inside a VR entertainment destination
oasisVRX opened a second New Jersey venue at Princeton North Shopping Center on 5 October 2026, with more than 30…
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