Breaking the Fourth Wall…Underground
Posted on April 18, 2019
Deep underground, on the edge of San Francisco’s Little Italy and Chinatown, a Speakeasy is coming back to life. Boxcar Theatre’s immersive production TheSpeakeasy ran for 8 months in 2014 in the ...
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How Technology is Making Halloween Attractions Scarier
Posted on October 31, 2016
Halloween always calls for the highest of hijinks, and if we can use technology to scare people to their core, why not? Just about everyone will agree the strobe lights ...
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7 Standout Haunted Attractions for Halloween 2016
Posted on October 1, 2016
Delusion, Los Angeles, CA
The haunted attractions industry has always brought terror to the masses, but 2016 introduces new experiences like never before. Interactivity is making guests the haunters rather than the ...
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How Experience Design is Transforming Unusual Houses into Cultural Attractions
Posted on September 9, 2016
What’s our fascination with looking inside other people’s homes? Whether it’s spending time in a historically significant building (e.g. “I want to see the room where Mark Twain wrote a ...
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Creating Entertainment Spaces from Environmental Remediation Features
Posted on July 15, 2016
When people visit a theme park, mall, or other entertainment space, the parts they see are only a tiny fraction of the design work that went into a site. Every ...
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How Themed Experience Design is Reinvigorating Breweries
Posted on July 14, 2016
The craft beer industry is exploding. Just 20 years ago, brewery numbers ranged in the hundreds. Today, there are over 4,000 breweries in the United States, and the number keeps on growing. ...
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Playing it Safe: How Signage Can (And Cannot) Promote Safety at Entertainment Venues
Posted on June 30, 2016
A man leaves the boardwalk at Yellowstone National Park and is boiled to death in an acid spring. A child climbs over, under, and through barriers at the Cincinnati Zoo and ends up in ...
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Could Immersive Fitness Be the Cure for Obesity?
Posted on June 24, 2016
Just thinking about exercising in a gym is enough to send many Americans back to the couch. From a weird competitive culture that doesn’t fit a lot of people’s ideas ...
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Meow Wolf: An Inside Look at One of Today’s Most Unique Interactive Attractions
Posted on June 3, 2016
Meow Wolf has been called a theme park for people who love Disney World, but want something a little weirder. When you combine the forces of Game of Thrones author George R. ...
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How Millennials and Gen Z are Redefining Urban Tourism
Posted on June 2, 2016
No generation has been studied as extensively as Millennials and Gen Z. Yet for all the insight on what they’re looking for, many parts of the travel industry still consistently ...
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