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Premiering on October 8, entertainment studio BlackBox TV is releasing a short-form series exclusive to Meta Quest TV and in Meta Horizon Worlds with the Meta Quest 2 headset. The 360\u00b0 VR experience \u201cScream Park\u201d takes users on a virtual reality horror rollercoaster ride just in time for spooky season.<\/p>\n
Meta Quest TV is the VR home for VR headsets Meta Quest and Meta Quest 2. Users need a Meta Quest 2 device to view \u201cScream Park.\u201d In August, Meta hiked the price of Quest 2 from $299.99 to $399.99 because of high production costs.<\/p>\n
Each episode will be seven minutes long and includes \u201cactive ride scenes,\u201d which involve flashing lights, going inside the mouth of a creepy clown, as well as winding turns and spins that admittedly made us a little nauseous. A warning before every episode states it\u2019s not suitable for photosensitive viewers.<\/p>\n
At launch, the first four episodes will be released. The remaining four episodes will roll out throughout the fall.<\/p>\n
Unlike the new slate of games arriving in Quest 2, such as \u201cGhostbusters,\u201d \u201cAmong Us\u201d and \u201cRed Matter 2,\u201d BlackBox TV\u2019s eight-episode series is designed to give users non-interactive 360\u00b0 VR entertainment that blends live-action into a CGI world.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team is using VR gaming technology to build out a dark, complex, yet relatable story in the cinematic space,\u201d producer Tru Collins said in a statement. \u201cThe eye is a physical extension of the central nervous system, so when the visual effects of 360\u00b0 VR meet the emotional connection to the story, it hits the viscera in a way that 2D entertainment just can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
The company claimed that the video is \u201cnew for Meta\u201d and \u201cto our knowledge, is one of the first of its kind merging live action into a CGI world (most content does the reverse), and an immersive story\/ride that is outside of the gaming universe, and feels more real than a 2D series,\u201d BlackBox TV told .<\/p>\n
\u201cWith \u2018Scream Park,\u2019 we are not looking to replicate reality in VR; we\u2019re creating an experience you can\u2019t find anywhere else,\u201d said creator and director Tony E. Valenzuela.<\/p>\n
While there are roller coaster games for Meta Quest devices, \u201cScream Park\u201d is a narrative storytelling video with characters acting as if speaking directly to the viewer.<\/p>\n
Image Credits:<\/strong> BlackBox TV<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The exclusive series for Meta Quest 2 also stars a familiar face from the hit Netflix show \u201cStranger Things.\u201d Grace Van Dien \u2014 who played Chrissy, the possessed cheerleader in \u201cStranger Things\u201d \u2014 will star as Kelly Q in \u201cScream Park,\u201d who is trapped and needs to be rescued before the sun rises. The other live-action character in the series is \u201cAmerican Horror Story\u201d star Zach Villa as Will.<\/p>\n CGI characters like the Robot will be voiced by Monique Coleman, who starred in Disney\u2019s \u201cHigh School Musical.\u201d Online personality and singer Steve Zaragoza will be the voice of the antagonist, Toby Terrific.<\/p>\n \u201cScream Park\u201d is a continuation of BlackBox TV\u2019s \u201cEnter Scream Park,\u201d which premiered on its YouTube channel in 2021 and currently has more than 680,660 views. The channel has 1.1 million subscribers. BlackBox TV claimed that due to the video\u2019s success, the horror\/sci-fi studio decided to build out an entire series for the world of \u201cScream Park.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to be continuing our journey into \u2018Scream Park\u2019 with our new series and thankful for Meta\u2019s continued support,\u201d Valenzuela added.<\/p>\n BlackBox TV specializes in VR\/360\u00b0 experiences and was founded by filmmaker Valenzuela. The studio has released various other series to Meta Quest, such as \u201cBefore Scream Park,\u201d \u201cEnter Scream Park,\u201d \u201cAlan Wake in VR,\u201d \u201cThe Monster Challenge,\u201d \u201cFreddy Krueger,\u201d \u201cLights Out,\u201d \u201cPennywise the Dancing Clown\u201d and more.<\/p>\n The announcement of the 360\u00b0 VR series comes ahead of Meta\u2019s annual conference, Meta Connect, which occurs next Tuesday, October 11. The conference will include announcements of \u201cmajor updates to Horizon and avatar graphics,\u201d Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in his Instagram caption as a response to the cringy selfie of his avatar.<\/p>\n Horizon Worlds has experienced so many performance issues that not even Meta employees will use it, The Verge recently reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Premiering on October 8, entertainment studio BlackBox TV is releasing a short-form series exclusive to Meta Quest TV and in Meta Horizon Worlds with the Meta Quest 2 headset. The 360\u00b0 VR experience \u201cScream Park\u201d takes users on a virtual reality horror rollercoaster ride just in time for spooky season. Meta Quest TV is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1218460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}