Roller Coasters Like No Other

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By Christian White, Website Editor

If the swoops and swerves of regular roller coasters are not enough for you then you are in for a treat as amusement parks are beginning to unveil state of the art virtual reality coasters.

The experience is set to be exhilarating for park visitors. You are set to ride a traditional roller coaster, you buckle up and get ready to climb a huge hill but what you see is unlike any theme park ride ever.You still go up, down, upside down and more at super high speeds but your face is connected to a virtual reality Gear VR headset from Samsung that, in essence, inserts you into a video game.

Six flags is adding a digital twist to one of its rides, offering the parks customers a “mixed experience.” The park has renewed a partnership with Samsung to launch the New Revolution Galactic Attack, a VR coaster experience during which riders wear Samsung headsets for a “mixed reality ride.” The New Revolution which is an update of the Magic Mountain coaster that had just been called the Revolution brings the classic theme park ride into the next century and puts a modern twist on a classic invention created in 1884.

While in the ride, users battle an alien drone invasion and are scored based on their game play, reporters were told by Six Flags staff.

As riders drop at high speeds, the mixed reality view changes to an immersive, virtual reality environment and a fighter spaceship cockpit materializes and envelops the riders into a tunnel of light, After swinging through tight channels, narrowly dodging drones and artillery fire, riders are brought into one of three drone bays, each of which offer a completely different gaming experience and three different endings.

The Galactic attack were added to existing coasters at Six Flags parks: Magic Mountain and Kong Discovery Kingdom and experienced via VR headset.