VBI Lost Connection: the Escape Room for playing with AI.

The use of the escape room, a soaring phenomenon, involves millions of fans worldwide and is a useful learning tool for innovative education. AnotheReality decided to leverage the potential of the escape room to provide IBM with a solution for its clients and prospects to experience its artificial intelligence, Watson. AnotheReality thus created VBI: Lost Connection a truly unprecedented gaming experience. In this case study, we will discover, how this Virtual Reality Escape Room with IBM Artificial Intelligence manages to combine fun, innovation, and technology.

VBI: Lost Connection. A unique and immersive gaming experience

VBI: Lost Connection is a virtual escape room set in a dystopian future of 2043. Players find themselves trapped in a secret laboratory, with the goal of unraveling mysteries and finding the way out using Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence. Using an interactive and immersive narrative, players are required to interact with each other and their virtual surroundings using IBM’s most sophisticated artificial intelligence technologies. The game is multiplayer and allows teams to participate to tackle the proposed challenges together.

Virtual reality and artificial intelligence at the service of players

Thanks to the mix between the most advanced virtual reality solutions offered by AnotheReality and those of Artificial Intelligence proposed by IBM, VBI players can enjoy a completely innovative gaming experience with a high rate of interactivity and immersiveness. 

A special feature is Watson’s recognition of drawings and 3D materialization of them; this allows participants to create virtual objects to be used as puzzle pieces in the investigation. Using these tools, players can solve puzzles and overcome obstacles in creative and collaborative ways.

Benefits and opportunities offered by the VBI: Lost Connection experience

The VBI: Lost Connection experience offers numerous benefits and opportunities for all participants. It stimulates engagement, problem solving, and team building because of its multiplayer nature and the need to work together to overcome proposed challenges. It also allows players to experience IBM’s AI solutions firsthand, immersing themselves in playful and engaging context.

Virtual reality and artificial intelligence at the service of players

Thanks to the mix between the most advanced virtual reality solutions offered by AnotheReality and those of Artificial Intelligence proposed by IBM, players can enjoy in VBI a completely innovative gaming experience with a high rate of interactivity and immersiveness. 

A special feature is Watson’s recognition of drawings and 3D materialization of them; this allows participants to create virtual objects to be used as puzzle pieces in the investigation. Through the use of these tools, players can solve puzzles and overcome obstacles in creative and collaborative ways.

Benefits and opportunities offered by the VBI: Lost Connection experience

The VBI: Lost Connection experience offers numerous benefits and opportunities for all participants. It stimulates engagement, problem solving, and team building because of its multiplayer nature and the need to work together to overcome proposed challenges. It also allows players to experience IBM’s AI solutions firsthand, immersing themselves within a playful and engaging context.

The success of VBI: Lost Connection

The success of VBI: Lost Connection is evidenced by the numbers. Over 100 players participated in the first event, and since then a total of seven events have been held. Thanks to these results, VBI: Lost Connection has earned the title of #1 Italian Virtual Escape Room. 

Conclusions

VBI: Lost Connection represents a concrete example of how innovation and fun can merge in the world of Escape Rooms and artificial intelligence. Thanks to IBM’s AI solutions and those in VR from AnotheReality, players enjoy an original and immersive experience that stimulates collaboration and creativity in an innovative way. The potential of IBM’s AI solutions in gaming and beyond is immense, and VBI: Lost Connection is tangible proof of that.

Don’t miss your chance to attend upcoming events and experience VBI: Lost Connection firsthand. Immerse yourself in an innovation adventure and discover the potential of IBM artificial intelligence. Challenge yourself and your team!