A Myrtle Beach entertainment venue is a modern twist on the arcade, with immersive virtual reality experiences for all ages.<\/p>\n
Interactive Experience Unleashed, located at 7621 N. Kings Highway, features a variety of reality-altering technology to immerse players into the virtual world.<\/p>\n
Richard Thai, the manager at IEU, describes the company as a one-of-a-kind gaming experience, powered by technology that blends augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and virtual reality (VR).<\/p>\n
Augmented reality\u00a0\u2014 combines computer-generated images on a screen with the real life objects or scene that viewers are surrounded by.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Virtual reality\u00a0\u2014 an artificial environment which is experienced through sensory stimuli (such as sights and sounds) provided by a computer and in which one’s actions partially determine what happens in the\u00a0environment<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
Mixed reality\u00a0\u2014\u00a0combines parts of both AR and VR, using real-world and digital elements, allowing them to interact.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The Vex Play area offers Pico 4 VR headsets that are considered to be the \u201cFerrari\u201d of VR headsets, according to Thai. Vex players will select their game and experience MR with their headsets in the play area.<\/p>\n
\u201cFour people can go in or we usually see one kid playing with two other kids they don\u2019t know, but they all see each other playing [in the game],\u201d Thai said.<\/p>\n
The game \u201cGranny\u2019s Alien Invasion\u201d has players take on the character of animated \u2018grannys\u2019 that use a handheld vacuum to defend fresh-baked cake from alien invaders. \u201cJump a Cheese\u201d follows the same objective, but with astronaut mice that protect their cheese planet from bugs. \u201cBuckshot Bonanza” takes on a western cowboy plot.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou get to compete against each other, shoot against each other, zipline all around and it has different upgrades for your guns as you walk around, but they\u2019re just animals that you put on your gun,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In the Valo-Arena, the technology offers AR that is similar to an XBox Kinect or Wii Sports type of technology. The players walk into the room and onto a tiled floor that is displayed on a large screen. Then, players use their feet to make selections with the tiles.<\/p>\n
\u201cGround Fall\u201d offers a virtual \u2018floor-is-lava\u2019 game where players will see the tiles crumble on the screen and run to safe in-tact tiles. Another option follows a ‘red-light, green-light’ objective, but players are immersed in a bank heist.<\/p>\n
Each game lasts about five to eight minutes, depending on the players\u2019 skills.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause we are a time-based system, it depends on how you want to use your time in each area,\u201d Thai said. \u201cWe always say the four-hour is more bang for your buck.\u201d<\/p>\n
The four-hour admission price recently dropped to $29.99 and one-hour play costs $18.99. In addition to high-tech video games, a kids playground offers ballpits, slides, tunnels and more. A four-hour playground card costs $14.99 and includes grip socks required for the playground.<\/p>\n
The Firebird Cafe offers pizza, hot dogs, popcorn and more for players that need to rest and refuel.<\/p>\n
There are four party rooms for those interested in hosting a birthday celebration. The employees are also able to program the avatars in the games with a birthday hat to symbolize the occasion in the virtual world.<\/p>\n
IEU also features the world\u2019s first MR and animatronics experience: The Curse of Calypso. The guided experience takes players through a world of unknown where they meet the famous pirate Blackbeard, find the skull of Calypso and \u201cescape the Netherworld.\u201d<\/p>\n
IEU has more planned in 2026, including annual membership deals, virtual reality golf, and additional party rooms.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Myrtle Beach entertainment venue is a modern twist on the arcade, with immersive virtual reality experiences for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":508703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[208194,227577,227576,158,67,132,68,924,729,730],"class_list":{"0":"post-508702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-entertainment-venue","9":"tag-interactive-experience-unleashed","10":"tag-myrtle-beach-attractions","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-video-games","16":"tag-virtual-reality","17":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115876988370590593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}