VOA常速英语:南昌创办首家VR乐园

What if a rollercoaster ride looked like this, no rails no trains, just a chair on a mechanical arm and a pair of glasses. VR glasses meaning virtual reality. That’s how it is in Nanchang where a new amusement park relies entirely on digital entertainment. If you compare the two, the traditional theme park is much bigger and takes a long time to build. These VR theme parks can replicate the experience of traditional amusement facilities. Take this rollercoaster for example, it’s safer and more compact. It’s incomparably better than traditional amusement equipment in these ways. The park uses VR for a variety of attractions, including the roller coaster ride, a musical video game where you have to hit the right notes, and a shooter in a completely unreal environment. In the future, this technology should do really well. It really gives you the feeling of reality.

This is the first time I’m experiencing it and it’s great. The park wants to invest in a future technology and hopes to keep people’s fascination with virtual reality of life. For the technology, it is still highly experimental. VR was introduced with much fanfare a few years ago, but has failed to enter the mainstream since then. What we want to do with virtual reality is to break reality in its limits and experience things beyond reality, but in fact the VR we can experience right now has a lot of flaws.
For example, although on the visual front, we can say we’ve broken past reality in our visual experience, there’s still a lack of physical feedback. Meaning we can see the virtual world around us, but we can’t feel them that limits the technology’s appeal from many applications. For now, one of its main uses is in professional training. For pilots for example, in this Boeing VR simulator, a real touchable interface is combined with a virtual world outside. Some significant development still needs to happen before we can virtually wander around in our houses, go for a walk without leaving the house or actually hold a product in our hands before buying it online. Nanchang hopes to become a significant virtual reality player in the future not just with digital rollercoasters.
Markus Meyer-Gehlen, for VOA News, Washington.