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 28, 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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