Hi all,
I'm a big Boston Red Sox fan, and I go to quite a few games at Fenway Park every year. During the last five years or so, the Sox Marketing Machine has really kicked into high gear, and in an effort to make Fenway Park seem more family friendly, they've targeted kids with new activities. Most of them seem quite gimmicky, but this year the Sox introduced a cool new "VR Dugout." I watch the VR space fairly closely, and as such, I've seen lots of cool uses of it. But this struck me as particularly memorable, just based on the kids' reactions.
The VR Dugout consists of two components: an area where kids can put on a VR headset and look around at a virtual Fenway Park, from a virtual Red Sox dugout; and a "VR batting cage," where kids get a small bat shaped sensor in addition to the headset, and they see a virtual pitcher, who throws baseballs for them to swing at. In many cases, you can tell these kids have never experienced VR before, and their reactions are priceless. Most seem a little freaked out at first, maybe dizzy and off balance. But when they sort of get used to it, they crack huge smiles and start trying to touch everything around them. Some completely freak out. It's awesome. (Check out
#SoxVR on Twitter or
Instagram to see photos.)
This is the most memorable use of VR I've seen to date. The only other one that comes to mind that was close was a
Samsung "VR roller coaster" I saw at the company's 2016 developer conference. That also had people screaming and yelling over VR.
I'm curious, what is the most memorable use of VR you've seen to date? It doesn’t have to be the most unique or potentially valuable. But what stuck in your mind?