World class interactive entertainment for museums and retail drives engagement for fans and consumers

Warner Bros & Harry Potter Flagship Store NYC Summer 2021

Wevr created two immersive interactive Harry Potter experiences: Wizards Take Flight and Chaos At Hogwarts

Wizards take Flight and Chaos at Hogwarts are two state of the art Location Based VR Experiences that take audiences inside the Wizarding World of Harry potter to experience the magic themselves. They are exclusively located in the NYC Harry Potter flagship store and tickets can be acquired in advance here. The launch in Summer 20201 was met with long lines and happy fans. At the store, the Harry Potter retail experience is designed to open a gateway into the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. It gives costumers and fans a magical escape into their beloved fantasy world. Wizards take Flight and Chaos at Hogwarts fuel the illusion to the limit by literally allowing fans to become witches and wizards.

Wevr is proud to have collaborated with The Blair Partnership and Warner Bros. as a creative partner to bring these two experiences to life and push the limits of virtual reality entertainment.

This collaboration includes creative development, interactive storytelling system design, and development and production of digital art, animation and interactive systems, directed and developed by Luis Blackaller and Anthony Batt for Wevr.

Holodome at MoPop Meusuem in Seattle WA.

Wevr's collaboration with Paul Allen and Vulcan Productions to create a shared Virtual Reality experience beyond the Headset

Paul Allen’s vision for a shared immersive, real-time interactive projection mapping 360-degree simulated reality that did not require a VR headset, opened to the public at the Museum of Popular Culture in Seattle (MoPOP) in the Summer 2018. A product of the late Microsoft co-founder’s Vulcan Inc., Holodome attracted more than 38,000 visitors inside its spherical walls to take in content and technology offering cutting-edge sound and visuals. MoPOP is also a product of Allen’s creative vision of shared immersive experinces.

The exhibit featured Death Planet Rescue, a science fiction thrill-ride experience created and directed by Luis Blackaller, and produced in collaboration by Wevr and Vulcan Productions to support Paul Allen's Holodome vision. Death Planet Rescue is virtual reality story ride that brings audiences into the action by turning the Holodome into a futuristic rescue ship, and guides them to help save a nascent human colony from the overwhelming dangers they faced in a resource-rich hostile planet, and to learn in the process that nothing ever is what what it seems.

Following the success of the exhibit, Wevr was commisioned to run the Holodome Creative Lab, with the intention of exploring the limits of the medium, as well as collaborating with the vibrant film and media arts communities in Los Angeles. Produced by Luis Blackaller and Anthony Batt for Wevr, this collaboration brought together architects, media artists, musicians, actors, technologists and filmmakers to conceive and develop dozens of interactive immersive projection mapping experiences covering every genre imaginable.

Los Angeles Natural History Museum

Wevr's TheBlu VR exhibition

The Los Angeles County Natural History Museum has consistently embraced new technologies in order to inspire and educate museum visitors of all ages. In order to do so, the museum has collborated with Wevr's award winning TheBlu virtural reality franschcie to create a unique exhibit that used in real life imgaery and virtrual reality technoltoy. TheBlu exhitbit takes audiences deep in the natrual wonder of the ocean and givs them a magical escape into the natural world.

The idea of using immersive media to create a sense of wonder and foster an emotional connection with the natural world is a desire shared by the creative team behind theBlu. As Jake Rowell, director of theBlu, explains, “We feel theBlu is a perfect fit for the Museum and its guests. It allows people to explore the wonder and mystery of the ocean through a series of habitats and come face to face with some of the most awe-inspiring species on the planet. And then take that same enthusiasm and see the museum’s other exhibits in a whole new light. Two years ago, it was our hope to create a virtual underwater experience for everyone to enjoy. And with the Natural History Museums help and support, our VR experience is able to reach an entire new audience. “

For nearly 8 weeks in March and April, 2017, Wevr’s theBlu will be available to more than 5000 engaged museum-goers. And because of the positive response, the curation and marketing teams at NHM have already expressed interest in a future collaboration.

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