Executive summary
Welcome to your weekly briefing on the metaverse and spatial computing. Here are your snippets to sound smarter in meetings this week:
Top story: Cleopatra: The Experience is technically impressive, but substantially weak (more below).
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Other news: Sandbox VR is launching Age of Dinosaurs on April 3, offering a full-body VR expedition with scientifically accurate dinosaurs in collaboration with the Natural History Museum London (more below).
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Top Story
Cleopatra: The Experience is technically impressive, but substantially weak.
What is it? It is an immersive experience in London where people go through nine exhibits, ranging from objects from Cleopatra's time to a VR adventure, and various other rooms that include technological ways of immersing people. The VR experience was impressive, and the four-panelled room in particular really impressed me with its technological prowess.
So what’s the issue? The content itself was substantially weak because much of it was repetitive. The exhibition started with a summary of Cleopatra's life, and the rest of the exhibit repeated those same points multiple times, in multiple different technological ways. Points about her life and death were repeated several times, which meant it felt like seeing the same thing from different angles. I would have liked more depth as we got deeper into the exhibit.
This week’s stories
Blue Frog Studios has launched Blue Frog Immersive for Apple Vision Pro, delivering remote concert experiences using stereoscopic 8K video and spatial audio in collaboration with Acute Immersive.
The Philharmonia Orchestra has launched Virtual Orchestra: William Tell, a VR experience at Southbank Centre that lets young audiences learn instruments and perform inside a virtual orchestral setting.
Puzzle Dev and Armor Games Studios have launched Interlocked: Puzzle Islands on Meta Quest, expanding their burr puzzle game into a VR experience with hand-controlled 3D gameplay and new challenge sets.
Resolution Games has released a 10th anniversary update for Bait! featuring new in-game items and announced upcoming mixed reality and hand-tracking support planned for 2026.
Also, Resolution Games has released the first major update in five years for Acron: Attack of the Squirrels!, introducing a new Cherry Glade level alongside gameplay and network improvements.
Sandbox VR is launching Age of Dinosaurs on 3 April, offering a full-body VR expedition with scientifically accurate dinosaurs in collaboration with the Natural History Museum London.
VR Studio LDLC has launched TaVRn’s Takedown on Steam and Meta, a VR beat ’em up set in the Naheulbeuk universe featuring chaotic tavern brawls and boss fights.
Note: The Immersive Wire is run by Tom Ffiske, who also works at Accenture. The contents of the newsletter should not be regarded as Accenture’s views.
All spelling mistakes are deliberate, actually.
