What if you do that and want more, like an “enhanced” world? Worth a try!
]]>Thanks! I figured it was one way or the other, but that makes sense. Curious if the cost will be reflected, or if it’ll be one price, but you can decline the VR headset.
]]>You raise a good point, Grid. The VR coaster concept is every bit as dumb as the idea of donning a VR headset in a strip club to watch virtual reality strippers. Although, I can remember at least one strip club I was at that I could only wish for a VR headset. The strippers were so bad that I would have paid for a blindfold if they had any for sale. And when it comes right down to it, for the price of 14 beers you can get a set of beer goggles that’ll make every stripper in the world (and then some) beautiful. That’s better than virtual reality, plus you get the beer.
]]>This is a completely different situation. Unlike a traditional theme park, I don’t think there are hundreds of people clamoring to ride this every hour. Stats on this coaster say it can run up to five trains. I doubt they even use more than one.
Theme parks don’t really have an incentive to speed up operations. Guests have already paid, so what’s the rush. But this coaster is paid per rider. So, in the unlikely event this becomes wildly popular, they can add trains and staff to improve load/unload times.
]]>None of the other VR coasters that I know of are forcing people to wear the headgear. It’s optional.
]]>Yet, people will pay it for the experience. And that experience is riding a Roller Coaster ON THE LAS VEGAS STRIP. Once you don a VR headset, whats the point? In a normal theme park setting, where you ride through trees and such, maybe.
But why would I not want to see the strip in Vegas? Isn’t that the point of having a coaster there?
]]>They may not end up making more money because they will not be able to have nearly the amount of riders you have without VR.
]]>Using a MyVegas reward (while staying in a NYNY room years ago seeing the flash from the camera out the window) I drank way to much… and although
I don’t remember any of the ride, because I was posing for a picture I knew was coming at some point. HAHA