Futuristic cinema highlights VR’s resurgence in China

One cinema in Beijing is showing more than the latest blockbusters -- it’s showing movies in VR.

Er Dong Pictures showed off the newest addition to the ZYED Cinema on Wednesday. Built to look like the inside of a spacecraft, the room is over 200 meters long and has 20 chairs with VR headsets built in.

As you can see from the picture, those aren’t ordinary chairs. While a film is playing, Chinese state media says the chairs are capable of spinning, shaking and other “physical sensations.”

It's now showing six short VR films, with each spanning between five and fifteen minutes. Tickets for four films are priced at 38 yuan (US$6) and the other two at 78 yuan (US$12).

The six films include Shadows of Kurgansk, Raising a Rukus, The Dream Collector, Legend of the Sky, Free Whale and In the Pictures. While the first two are foreign imports, the rest are homegrown VR films.