Life Chronicles
What is the Life Chronicles experience? I have roughly about the same experience of VR as I have of life in the SBS, and thus it’s difficult to feel at the absolute zenith of my critical powers when it comes to assessing this dinosaur-themed headset experience at Stratford Westfield. But we all have to start somewhere, eh? London has rapidly filled up with virtual reality gaming experiences in the last few years, and there are two of them now available in the hallowed confines of Westfield Stratford. They take place at something called the Eclipso Centre, which is basically a large empty room in which we can physically wander while immersed in whichever virtual world we have paid to enter for 45 minutes. There are currently two available. ‘Horizon of Khufu’ is an exploration of Ancient Egypt. And then there’s the one I did, the blandly titled ‘Life Chronicles’, which is a trip back into various eras of prehistory. You and whoever you came with are grouped as a team: once you don the headsets your outlines are clearly defined and visible from a distance; those of participants not in your team are ghostly and only visible at short range (to stop you bumping into them). Both experiences take place in the same space simultaneously, with a total capacity of up to 30. Is the virtual reality experience worth visiting? ‘Life Chronicles’ is good fun. Although it is absolutely not aggressively concerned with up to date scientific accuracy in its depiction of dinosaurs - it’s fairly l