Holoverse is an amusement attraction on the Gold Coast, Australia, that opened in June 2016. The centre is owned by

Euclideon Euclideon Pty Ltd is an Australian computer software company known for a middleware 3D computer graphics, 3D Game engine, graphics engine, called Unlimited Detail. Euclideon is also the parent company and operator of Holoverse, a 'holographic en ...

Entertainment, founded by Bruce Dell in 2017, who developed the technology for the public to experience the holograms. Holoverse uses entertainment technology that creates artificial environments and objects that are described as

holograms Holography is a technique that allows a wavefront to be recorded and later reconstructed. It is best known as a method of generating three-dimensional images, and has a wide range of other uses, including data storage, microscopy, and interfe ...

History

The centre was partially funded by the

Australian Government The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government or simply as the federal government, is the national executive government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. The executive consists of the pr ...

. It was opened by the Premier of

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

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. The centre contains 40 hologram rooms, is the first centre of its kind in Australia, and is said to house the largest number of them in the world. In November 2018, Holoverse's parent company

announced it would be installing their new 'hologram arcade tables' into Holoverse.

Experiences

New content is released by the mother company

every three months. While primarily for entertainment, other experiences focus on educational content for schools and interactive learning experiences. So far the centre has six experiences / sessions: * Experiences: Volume 1 * False Eden * Fly Over the Gold Coast * Holographic Planetarium (Two parts) * Veggie Patch Valley * Dinosaur Experience *Holographic Arcade Tables

Expansion

On February 12, 2019, the 2nd Holoverse center in the world, opened in Muscat, Oman.

Technology

The technology, when used in other fields, is often referred to as a

virtual reality Virtual reality (VR) is a Simulation, simulated experience that employs 3D near-eye displays and pose tracking to give the user an immersive feel of a virtual world. Applications of virtual reality include entertainment (particularly video gam ...

cave or VR CAVE environment. To create a Hologram, a series of items are used including projectors, flat and angular surfaces, 3D glasses, tracking domes, tracking spheres and 3D animated, and graphical scenarios containing millions of tiny digital spheres called "atoms". In many cases there is also the presence of laser scanned objects. The technology differs from standard virtual reality, in which users wear screens over their eyes, headsets through which they are unable to see their own torso, arms or legs. Whereas in a VR CAVE, instead of going into the computer game, the person wears clear glasses and can see their own body, the computer-generated objects appearing to be in the real world with them.

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