Being There - The Verge

Welcome to Being There, a column on the emerging world of immersive entertainment — from virtual reality and theme parks, to haunted houses and interactive theater. Written by The Verge senior editor Bryan Bishop.

Dreamscape Immersive wants to bring location-based VR to the masses, starting with a shopping mall

Jan 15, 2019

Elgato announces a professional $199 light rig for Twitch streamers and YouTube creators

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Jan 7, 2019

Chained mixes virtual reality and live actors to tell a dark Christmas tale

Dec 5, 2018

How Two Bit Circus is turning its 21st century carnival into one giant game

Aug 22, 2018

Delusion: Lies Within mixes movies and immersive theater to create a creepy, campy VR adventure

Jul 20, 2018

How a creative think tank in Austin is developing a new generation of interactive storytellers

Mar 28, 2018

A day in real-life Westworld from a host’s perspective

Mar 26, 2018

The SimuLife Diaries, part eight: I sacrificed myself to save two worlds

Mar 15, 2018

The SimuLife Diaries, part seven: I stopped an evil megacorp and had a neon rave

Mar 15, 2018

The SimuLife Diaries, part six: I had a home-cooked meal with a family that doesn’t exist

Mar 14, 2018

The SimuLife Diaries, part five: I just brokered a tech deal worth $1.29 billion

Mar 13, 2018

The SimuLife Diaries, part four: I have my own personal Tyler Durden

Mar 13, 2018

The SimuLife Diaries: a four-day immersive story adventure

Mar 13, 2018

The SimuLife Diaries, part three: I was kidnapped by anti-technology anarchists in Austin

Mar 12, 2018

The SimuLife Diaries, part two: I found a stranger from another dimension in my hotel room shower

Mar 12, 2018

The SimuLife Diaries, part one: I’m a transdimensional doppelgänger

Mar 11, 2018

Dreamscape Immersive’s Alien Zoo takes guests to an interstellar Jurassic Park

Feb 23, 2018

With Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire, virtual reality is finally ready for prime-time

Nov 20, 2017

How a secret Los Angeles club hid an interactive story inside a music festival

Nov 9, 2017

I spent seven months living inside a conspiracy thriller and it’s not over yet

Oct 27, 2017

Why haunted houses are Hollywood’s next big thing

Oct 24, 2017

Hollywood and AMC theaters are betting on VR with Dreamscape Immersive

Sep 26, 2017

The future of entertainment is here, we just don’t know what to call it

Sep 3, 2017

How HBO’s Westworld installation made fans ‘the center of the universe’

Aug 16, 2017

Disney wants to build a Westworld for Star Wars fans

Jul 16, 2017

Alejandro Iñárritu’s VR installation is an emotional, harrowing border encounter

Jul 8, 2017

Movie theaters are becoming roller coasters, whether you like it or not

Jun 16, 2017

Disney is betting big on theme parks, but it needs to make up its mind

Jun 3, 2017

How two Disney Imagineers built a better escape room with The Nest

May 21, 2017

I spent four days inside my own personal horror movie at The Overlook Film Festival

May 3, 2017

Disney’s Star Wars land will be ‘immersive,’ but what does that actually mean?

Apr 26, 2017

Cults, chaos, and community: how The Tension Experience rewrote the rules of storytelling

Nov 22, 2016

How Los Angeles became the heart of immersive horror

Oct 29, 2016

I was eaten alive by an escape room cannibal

Oct 22, 2016

The scariest movie this Halloween is a play called Delusion

Oct 15, 2016

How the creators of Blackout are bringing the extreme haunted house into your living room

Oct 7, 2016

Inside the psychological maze of LA's most insidious theater event

Sep 30, 2016

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