Episode 3649: The Future of Entertainment Is Immersive: VR, AI and the Rise of Experience-Driven Leisure -- Expanding the Immersive Landscape in Leisure Facilities by Michael Mascioni

The Future of Entertainment Is Immersive: VR, AI and the Rise of Experience-Driven Leisure --

Expanding the Immersive Landscape in Leisure Facilities by Michael Mascioni

The book highlights key trends in diverse forms of immersive location-based entertainment in such leisure facilities as amusement parks, location-based entertainment centers, and museums. Those forms including immersive live theater, escape games, immersive rides, and immersive art. Trends covered in the book include the growing fusion of physical and virtual immersive experiences, an expansion in the kinds of topics covered by immersive location-based entertainment forms, and the development of a more robust infrastructure for immersive location-based entertainment using such new technologies as VR and AR.

Michael Mascioni is an author, futurist, and conference planner focused on digital media, technology, and innovation. He is the author of “Expanding the Immersive Landscape in Leisure Facilities” and co-author of “The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier.” He also wrote a section on the future of immersive media in amusement parks for “50:50- Scenarios for the Next 50 Years.”

He writes freelance for such publications as Remix Reality, Innovation & Tech Today, and Hotelier.

He was co-chairman of the “Future of Immersive Leisure Conferences,” and was program director for the “Intertainment” conferences on interactive entertainment.

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