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Alterface Projects is working on dark rides for Lego Discovery Centres


Marvel, Lego projects make their mark


ALTERFACE PROJECTS


Alterface Projects completed its original 3D-animated interactive gaming cinema as part of a project to build a touring attraction based on Marvel comics. The Marvel Experience, a mobile interactive attraction run by Hero


Ventures, takes place inside a huge travelling dome complex, with the aim of providing an immersive experience for audiences who step into the Marvel universe to become a part of the story. The $30m (£19.6m, €26.5m) “hyper-


reality” attraction tours the US this year. Alterface Projects is also working on


Justice League: Battle For Metropolis dark rides with Sally Corporation, Oceaneering and Pure Imagination, opening this year at SixFlags Over Texas and SixFlags St Louis. Justice League dark rides aside,


Alterface Projects is working on six more The Marvel Experience is touring now


IP-based attractions scheduled to open in 2015, including new interactive dark rides for Lego Discovery Centres. n


AR app brings canal history to life for visitors


HOLOVIS


The visitor experience at Foxton Locks, the largest flight of staircase locks on the English canal system, and Foxton Canal Museum are undergoing a regeneration, and Holovis is using its cutting-edge virtual reality expertise to help bring the redevelopment to life. Holovis created an augmented reality


(AR) app and immersive curved screen theatre for the Leicestershire heritage site. The AR app allows visitors to “see” a


historic inclined plane engineering system that once existed at the site. Unlike the staircase locks, the inclined plane carried boats up and down the hill – almost like a funicular railway. Built in 1900, it was deemed a failure and dismantled in 1926.


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The inclined plane at Foxton Locks was a feat of engineering, but later dismantled Holovis says that using a fiducial


marker system at Foxton Locks, visitors can use smart phones and tablets to view the inclined plane working, recreating the positions barges would have had to make their journeys and at the same speed. “We’re delighted to be deploying our


knowledge and expertise to preserve this fantastic piece of local history by bringing


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it back to life using the latest technology,” said Stuart Hetherington, CEO of Holovis. “Usually we use virtual and augmented


reality to help our commercial clients create sophisticated 3D design environments,” said Hetherington. “The public has a chance to explore


Foxton Locks as it once was through an interactive, immersive experience.” n


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