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Six Flags teams up with Samsung to bring VR to real roller coasters

If the climbs, drops and loops of roller coasters weren’t thrilling enough for you, Six Flags is enhancing your coaster experience with virtual reality.

Amusement park giant Six Flags announced today it has teamed up with Samsung to bring the world of roller coasters together with VR to create a unique amusement park experience. Once you put on the Samsung Gear VR headset and the ride starts, you will become a fighter pilot battling off an alien invasion or a witness to a comic book-inspired battle between Superman and Lex Luthor.

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The VR roller coaster experience will be available to try on nine different rides at nine different Six Flags parks in the U.S. and Canada. The dogfight against aliens scenario, complete with a built-in game controller to fire weapons at enemy aliens, will be at:

• Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington on the Shock Wave
• Six Flags Over Georgia near Atlanta on the Dare Devil Dive
• Six Flags Magic Mountain near Los Angeles on The New Revolution
• Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, Mo. on the Ninja
• The Great Escape in Lake George, N.Y. on the Steamin’ Demon
• La Ronde in Montreal on the Goliath

The Superman rides will be a part of Superman-branded rides at:

• Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio on the Superman Krypton Coaster
• Six Flags New England in Agawam, Mass. on Superman The Ride
• Six Flags America in Upper Marlboro, Md. on Superman Ride of Steel

You don’t have to worry about bringing your own Gear VR and Samsung smartphone; the rides come equipped with custom Gear VRs that have an extra chin strap to ensure they don’t come flying off on steep drops and fast turns.

“We’ve actually tested these at 5.9 G’s and there’s no problem with those,” Six Flags Senior VP of Marketing Brett Petit told Mashable.

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The headsets aren’t all showing the same thing at the same time, because the difference between movement and timing in the front and back of the cars could cause motion sickness. Instead, each headset tracks where it is in relation to a “black box” fixed onto the car, so 

the headsets always know where they are and are in sync with the movements of the ride

the headsets always know where they are and are in sync with the movements of the ride.

“It’s actually a positional device that knows exactly where the train is on the track any time throughout the ride,” Six Flags corporate director of design Sam Rhodes told Mashable. “It sends that information via Bluetooth to the Gear headset, and all of the experience of the virtual world is in the headset.”

They said Six Flags is interested in expanding the VR experience to more roller coasters in the future.

By: +Matthews Martins