In Mexico you can already see the virtual exhibition “La Vecindad de El Chavo dPort”. AP Photo / Berenice Bautista)
DoWho hasn’t dreamed of going to the neighborhood of El Chavo of 8? There are probably “children” who have wanted it since the beginning of the Roberto Gómez Bolaños program more than 50 years ago, and now, thanks to virtual reality, they and the younger generations will be able to get to know him at full speed virtual tour in “The neighborhood by El Chavo dPort ”.
Visitors to the immersive exhibition, which opened its doors on Thursday, will be able to grab a cup of coffee at Doña Florinda’s home or collect Don Ramon’s tools, see also what’s inside the barrel of El Chavoall thanks to new technology that allows you to walk through 270 square meters (2,906 square feet) of this famous fantasy spot.
“We are trying to turn that myth into reality,” said Sergio Ramírez, general manager of Demiurgo and dPort, the companies behind the virtual project created in association with Grupo Chespirito and HIR Expo Internacional.
The virtual tour of the Chavo neighborhood costs just over $ 14. AP Photo / Berenice Bautista)
A scenography in a television studio
The neighborhood “never existed and this is the first time it really exists and that they can enter toothey can coexist with the characters in a unique experience in the world, ” added Ramírez.
The project has been in development for just over a year e includes a mixture of historical objects, information on the famous Mexican comic series created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños “Chespirito” and art leading up to the main piece: the great interactive room of virtual reality.
“An important part of our work is investigative, we went deep into the investigation,” said Ramírez. “What did she mean, why did she think that way, why did she talk that way, why did she walk a certain way? as exact as possible of how this great genius, Roberto Gómez Bolaños, can rest in peace, he thought”.
Equipped for virtual reality
Roberto Gómez Bolaño, like El Chavo del 8, has written history for more than two generations. Photo: Twitter
When visitors put on their virtual reality gear, that includes a viewer and handlebars to “grab” virtual objectsthey become flying insects lived in Chavo’s imagination: the churuminos. Visitors can see themselves on the virtual tour, but in their insect form.
The virtual sample mixes physical elements. For example, visitors can actually sit on sofas seen in virtual reality or lean against a table. Also, they have to go through the door frames to enter the rooms.
Adjusting to the space can be a little difficult at first, but soon it is easy to appreciate details such as airplanes, birds, toys and familiar voices Of the characters.
“When you speak virtual reality today, this is the top (the most advanced), there is no more up thereRamirez said. “This technology is the first multi-user virtual reality technology … When we imagine the experience, we imagine it this way. What would be the behavior of users with free will? Because you can move wherever you want, so things have happened to everyone parts”.
Sergio Ramirez, head of the 8th immersive exhibition on the Chavo neighborhood. AP Photo / Berenice Bautista
Tours will be conducted in groups of no more than 20 visitors. Tickets cost 300 Mexican pesos (14.5 dollars), plus the cost of the service for the sale of tickets, which can be purchased from the Fever platform. The exhibition will run until February 2023 at the Pepsi Center WTC in Mexico City.
The organizers hope to be able to take it to other cities and towns in the future.
“We have a lot of dreams,” Ramirez said. “We would like to see him in every corner of the world”.
The cast of “El Chavo del 8”, an unforgettable series for children.
Source: AP / Berenice Bautista
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