Beijing, China - Aug 4, 2018 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of ceremony in progress
2. Screen reading (English/Chinese) "Supersonic flagship VR movie theater coming soon"
3. Company representatives unveiling screen
4. Various of VR cinema
5. Various of moviegoers watching films in VR cinema
6. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Liu Bingjian, vice president, Supersonic Film Technology Limited Company (starting with shot 5/partially overlaid with shot 7):
"The seats can spin. This function allows the audience to turn around to see places that they could not see before. For example, we turn around, but there is an angle. When I turn to the side, I cannot see what's behind me. The spinning seats allow us to see."
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7. Moviegoer in VR cinema
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8. Various of moviegoers in VR cinema
9. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Moviegoer (name not given) (partially overlaid with shot 10/ending with shot 11):
"Quite dreamlike. Many dinosaurs came alive. It seemed like I could touch them and they stayed next to me."
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10. Moviegoer wearing VR headset
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11. Various of moviegoers in VR cinema
12. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Moviegoer (name not given) (starting with shot 13):
"It's comfortable. I can see everything around me, 360 degrees, and it's quite colorful."
13. Moviegoers in VR cinema
14. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Liu Bingjian, vice president, Supersonic Film Technology Limited Company (starting with shot 13, partially overlaid with shot 15, ending with shot 16):
"In traditional cinemas, there is one screen, and 200 to 500 audience members watch the same screen. Every seat has a different angle towards the screen. But in VR cinema, every viewer has one headset, and there is an LED screen inside the headset, which allows viewers to concentrate more while watching the movie and not be disturbed."
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15. Various of moviegoers in VR cinema
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16. Various of moviegoers in VR cinema

A Chinese company is planning to build a flagship virtual reality (VR) cinema in Beijing, which will elevate the experience of moviegoers in the country's capital.

The company, Er Dong Pictures, held a ceremony on Saturday to mark the beginning of construction on the new mega theater.

At present, the company has two VR movie theaters, with one in Solana.

Designed to look like the inside of a spacecraft, the room is over 200 meters long and has 20 chairs with built-in VR headsets.

"The seats can spin. This function allows the audience to turn around to see places that they could not see before. For example, we turn around, but there is an angle. When I turn to the side, I cannot see what's behind me. The spinning seats allow us to see," said Liu Bingjian, vice president of Supersonic Film Technology Limited Company.

Many moviegoers were amazed by the new experience.

"Quite dreamlike. Many dinosaurs came alive. It seemed like I could touch them and they stayed next to me," said a young moviegoer.

"It's comfortable. I can see everything around me, 360 degrees, and it's quite colorful," said another moviegoer.

Different from traditional movie theaters, VR cinemas allow audience members to choose what they want to watch, even though they are all sitting in the same room.

"In traditional cinemas, there is one screen, and 200 to 500 audience members watch the same screen. Every seat has a different angle towards the screen. But in VR cinema, every viewer has one headset, and there is an LED screen inside the headset, which allows viewers to concentrate more while watching the movie and not be disturbed," said Liu.