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Dreamscape Men In Black Location-Based VR Experience Launches October 1

From uploadvr

Dreamscape is launching a new location-based VR experience based on the Men In Black franchise next month, available at its flagship Westfield Century City location in Los Angeles.

Tickets are available now for Men In Black: First Assignment from October 1 onwards, with a $23.50 general admission price and a 10+ age requirement. Sessions are available roughly every 20-30 minutes from 11am each day, going into the late evening with 10pm sessions.

The Men In Black location-based VR experience was first announced over two years ago, before the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, it was Dreamscape’s first announced experience based on an existing IP — since then, it also announced and launched the DreamWorks Dragons: Flight Academy experience.

No launch date was given for Men In Black: First Assignment back in 2019, but with the pandemic halting most location-based VR for the better part of two years, it seems that the experience is finally ready to go.

First Assignment will support up to six players at a time, who will enter MIB headquarters and take on their first assignment, featuring some tentacled octopoids:

Tentacled Octopoids are threatening the Zarthanian royal family, who hold the key to intergalactic peace. Traveling aboard zippy hoverbikes, guests and their team of agents will work together to evade the alien invaders and hopefully make their way safely back to the MIB homebase. 

MIB: First Assignment is only available at the Century City location for now, but Dreamscape says it will come to its other locations soon. This Sunday will also be the last day to experience The Blu: Deep Rescue at Century City, presumably so it can make way for Men In Black just a few days later.

Tickets for Men In Black: First Assignment are available now.

‘Men in Black’ Location-based VR Experience to Debut at Dreamscape in October

From roadtovr

Location-based VR destination Dreamscape and Sony Pictures Virtual Reality announced they’re launching a new VR experience that puts you and five other friends in the shoes of the Men in Black: First Assignment.

Called Men in Black: First Assignment, the experience is debuting at Dreamscape’s flagship location in the LA-based Westfield Century City shopping center on Friday, October 1st, 2021.

Here’s Dreamscape’s description of the experience:

Suit up, agents! Your first assignment awaits. The Zarthanian royal family needs protection from an evil Octopoid plot that could destroy the entire universe – and you’re just the team of new recruits for the job! As a freshly minted agent, you’ll have access to our secret command center, plus a helping hand (or paw) from Frank the Pug and a team of friendly aliens. The dreaded Octopoids are in hot pursuit. So throttle up your hoverbikes. You’ll need to work together to find the space portals, keep the royal family out of tentacle’s reach, and return everyone safely to Planet Zarthania!

General admission to the experience is priced at $23.50, with the full experience slated to last approximately 35 minutes from beginning to end including check-in and fitting VR gear. Dreamscape says all participants must be at least 48 inches (122 cm) tall and 10+ years old, with those under age 13 requiring an adult.

It’s likely we’ll see the MIB experience roll out to its other Dreamscape locations; the company currently operates four locations spread across California, Ohio, Texas and Dubai.

Founded in 2016, Dreamscape has been fairly lucky to have secured a reported $30.6 million Series C financing in February 2020, or just mere days before the COVID-19 pandemic put a near universal stop to all in-person activities and events. Now nearly two years later, it seems both Dreamscape and Sony feel that it’s time to pick up where they respectively left off.

Sony has previously worked to bring its historical catalogue of IP to virtual reality, both in the out-of-home sector and direct to consumers. It’s licensed films such as Groundhog Day, Zombieland, Ghostbusters, and Jumaniji for VR experiences.