Daily News | Otherworld Philadelphia is an immersive futuristic playground
“It’s fully immersive, all around you, it’s 360 degrees of art,” said Hollie Hermes, Otherworld’s art director. “And none of the rooms you just look at, there’s something interactive there in all of them.”
The high-level narrative, according to Renda, is that you’re entering a lifetime subscription to be a part of a futuristic community structured around a HAL-9000-like computer. There’s no map to Otherworld, so there’s no right way to move through it and no way to tell if you’ve missed anything. In fact, I was about to leave when I doubled back to check something out and discovered a room I’d missed, where figures in plague doctor masks were holding a funeral .Vincent Tchiong, 24, of Upper Darby, who attended the VIP opening, said he enjoyed the open-endedness of it all.
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