Creating a space you can’t wait to return to—with corners and areas you may have missed the first time, or interactions that happen spontaneously—really functions to bring to the surface that need for human connection and how tech can enhance it as opposed to locking us away from one another. “There are these beautiful moments of connection with characters. And if you do play through all the way to the end, which we know is a commitment, you do get a really cool payoff of impacting the story,” Garner said. “[It’s] definitely a cool experiment in terms of technology and the way to interact with the space. And the challenge for Meow Wolf always is: how do we marry the story with the physical environment, and how can we use tech to actually activate that and bring it alive, as opposed to pulling it apart?”
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Convergence Station in Denver, Colorado
Omega Mart in Las Vegas, Nevada (AREA15)
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Meow Wolf’s the Real Unreal, opening July 14 in Grapevine, Texas; there’s also a Houston portal in the works.
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