Virtual Reality Is Revolutionizing the Roller Coaster Experience Wesley Yiin - The Washington Post
go to original June 11, 2016

Before the new Superman: Ride of Steel Virtual Reality Roller Coaster takes off, riders strap on their headsets, and the cityscape of Metropolis materializes before them. If they look down, they see their bodies have been virtually re-outfitted with T-shirts that have the Batman or, at the click of a button, Wonder Woman logos on them.

The immersion is complete.

On most roller coasters, you see the drops coming. On Ride of Steel, which officially opens at Six Flags America in suburban Washington on Saturday, it's a bit more complicated. On your screen, you're on a sky tour of Metropolis when Lex Luthor shoots you and the rest of the city with an anti-gravity gun - while you make your first ascent up the track in real life. Suddenly, Superman appears and destroys the gun.

And then you drop. You're centimeters away from the "ground" before Superman catches you, and for the remainder of the two-minute ride, Superman and Luthor duke it out while bouncing you all over the skies and raining debris on poor Metropolis.

VR coasters, which are cropping up around the globe this year, take the actual old-school summer tradition and add on a headset with cutting-edge technology. It may sound like an odd mash-up - but they could change the way we ride coasters altogether.

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