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Although it’s still the number one destination in the country to see weird stuff that the Victorians taxidermied, the Natural History Museum has been quietly getting into cutting edge technology in recent years, with the launch of its Visions of Nature AR experience and immersive film Our Story with David Attenborough.
Now it takes a further step into the 21st century via a new collaboration with the popular international virtual gaming chain Sandbox VR (which has three branches in London).
And it doesn’t take a genius to work out what the new game might be about: much as we love the NHM for its exhaustive exploration of the natural world, the headline attraction has long been dinosaurs, and such is the focus of the Sandbox VR collab.
Age of Dinosaurs is a brand-new virtual reality adventure that has been created in collaboration with the museum and palaeontologist Darren Naish. Specifically aimed at a younger audience, it’ll see players visit 15 different locations throughout the Jurassic and Cretaceous period, where they'll encounter some of the most scientifically accurate dinos ever depicted in any medium. It’s an exploration game, that seems profoundly unlikely to give you the opportunity to zap a T-rex with anything more than a camera. But the visuals should be second to none, about as close as you can get to voyaging back to Mesozoic days outside of a time machine.
Age of Dinosaurs is due to roll out to Sandbox VR’s more than 60 global locations in 2026, date TBA.
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