Universal Studios Hollywood is about to open the new “King Kong 360 3-D” attraction at their theme park, bringing the giant gorilla to live with some help from Peter Jackson’s Weta FX. Done as part of the backlot studios tour, it’s a “4-D” experience combining the ride with air cannons and other physical effects, as well as super-high resolution 3D visuals.
They’re still on the tram tour, they’re still driving through, but now the world around them is Skull Island and what we’ve done is used all the technology that we had at our disposal and some very highly tuned specifications to make the experience a very compelling one; we’re working with very high resolution images so the images have an enormous amount of detail in them. We’re working at a very high frame range — 60 frames per second — so a lot of the [adverse things] associated with a typical movie experience at 24 frames per second — motion blur and flicker –those go completely out the window. The audience is getting delivered a huge amount of visual information at a very high rate.
Everyone over here at the Hilton Los Angeles / Universal City is really excited to have this attraction open up and so are the guests. Our sales team gets to experience it tonight and we cannot wait! We are sending everyone over and suggesting you purchase tickets ahead of time with your stay so that you can get the most out of your visit to North Hollywood.
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