Eugene virtual reality artist spoof of Chuck E. Cheese arcade goes viral - Oregon Public Broadcasting

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Broadcast: Friday, Nov. 18

Earlier this month, images started appearing online of a macabre and quirky amusement halfway that whitethorn not be, well, amusive for the full family. It’s besides not real. Chucky Cheese Pizza Arcade & Bowling is the enactment of Cabel Adams, a Eugene nonmigratory and self-taught virtual world creator who took photos of a adjacent promenade and utilized 3D modeling and virtual world bundle to make a realistic-looking arcade with Chucky, the slasher doll from the ‘80s fearfulness movie franchise “Child’s Play,” arsenic its mascot. Adams posted the images and video clips of the exterior and interior of the abstraction connected Facebook, blending elements of existent structures and fake attractions, and adjacent dressed up successful a Chucky costume himself to make a tantalizing anticipation of really being there.

His conception rapidly went viral, racking up 100,000 shares connected Facebook wrong 24 hours, and it adjacent caught the attraction of Jennifer Tilly, an histrion successful the “Child’s Play” movie franchise and the “Chucky” TV spin-off. Cabel Adams joins america to speech astir the absorption to his work, and utilizing VR and augmented world to blur the lines betwixt world and artifice.

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