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GIANT robots and futuristic cyberpunk castles rise out of lush mountain slopes on the outskirts of Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province.
Welcome to China’s first virtual reality theme park, which aims to ride a boom in demand for virtual entertainment that is set to propel tenfold growth in the country’s virtual reality market, to hit almost US$8.5 billion by 2020.
The 330-acre park in southwestern promises 35 virtual reality attractions, from shoot-’em-up games and virtual rollercoasters to tours with interstellar aliens of the region’s most scenic spots.
“After our attraction opens, it will change the entire tourism structure of Guizhou province as well as China’s southwest,” Chief Executive Chen Jianli said.
“This is an innovative attraction, because it’s just different,” he said in an interview at the park, part of which is scheduled to open next February.
The US$1.5-billion Oriental Science Fiction Valley park, is part of China’s thrust to develop new drivers of growth centered on trends such as gaming, sports and cutting-edge technology.
The Guiyang park will offer tourists bungee jumps from a huge Transformer-like robot, and a studio devoted to producing virtual reality movies. Most rides will use VR goggles and motion simulators to thrill users.
“You feel like you’re really there,” said Qu Zhongjie, the park’s manager of rides. “That’s our main feature.”
China’s virtual reality market is expected to grow tenfold to 55.6 billion yuan (US$8.4 billion) by the end of the decade, state-backed think-tank CCID has said.
Farmers in the nearby village of Zhangtianshui said they looked forward to the economic benefits a new theme park would bring. Most were less sure about virtual battles or alien invasions, though.
“There are lots of good things that come out of these projects,” one farmer, Liu Guangjun, said. “As for the virtual reality, I don’t really understand it.”
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