Disney reveals the tech used to create WEB SLINGERS: A Spider-Man Adventure
The new interactive, high-tech attraction WEB SLINGERS: A Spider-Man Adventure located in the new Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure Park uses innovative technology that recognizes guest’s body movements and gestures to enhance the experience, according to Disney.
Disneyland will hold a special grand opening for the Avengers Campus on June 2. It will officially open to the public on June 4. The doors to Avengers Campus welcome all Avengers, their allies, and new recruits. The site, formerly a Stark Industries complex, is a place to train the next generation of Super Heroes. The once restricted and secret complex has been rebuilt and is comprised of several distinct and diverse heroic spaces.
The new Spider-Man attraction invites guests to “put their web-slinging skills to the test. The mission: team up with Spidey and help capture the out-of-control Spider-Bots before they wreak havoc on the Campus. In this mission, guests will sling webs like Spider-Man and experience what it’s like to have super powers, a feat accomplished with innovative technology created specifically for this attraction,” according to Disney.
A blend of physical, fully dimensional sets and virtual environments will take recruits on this interactive escapade, which includes animation, moving props and special effects. There is no height requirement for this attraction.
“We’re going to give you super powers,” Brent Strong, executive creative director at Walt Disney Imagineering, said in a news release. “There’s not a kid who has read a comic or watched a TV show or a movie who hasn’t walked away wishing they could sling webs, and we’re going to make that happen for every single guest. The new technology can render a virtual web coming directly out of your wrist and into that world without touching an interface. It’s as close to being Spider-Man as you can get.”
The adventure begins at Avengers Campus’ Worldwide Engineering Brigade – or WEB – a workshop of young engineers who specialize in developing innovative technologies to equip and empower a new generation of Super Heroes. This workshop showcases the inventions of Peter Parker and the rest of the WEB Tech team, including Spider-Bots which are designed to be robotic sidekicks capable of building anything a Super Hero might need.
When Peter Parker’s demonstration goes awry during an open house, the Spider-Bots are stuck in replication mode, creating even more Spider-Bots. Mayhem ensues with Spider-Bots escape the workshop and guests become brave recruits. Donning 3D glasses, guests test-drive the aspiring inventor’s latest invention, the WEB Slinger vehicle, and discover their web-slinging super powers.
Tom Holland reprises his role as Peter Parker as guests are invited to put their web-slinging skills to the test, a feat accomplished with innovative technology adapted specifically for this attraction
For guests looking for a customized and enhanced experience, you can purchase some WEB Tech accessories available at the Disneyland Resort Backlot Premiere Shop featured at Avengers Campus, WEB Suppliers, and Campus Supply Pod merchandise locations. The WEB Power Band or WEB Shooter accessories give guests access to advanced functions like a multi-firing web option while battling the Spider-Bots on the loose.
According to Disney, through specially designed, innovative technology that recognizes body movements and gestures, guests will reach out their hands and sling webs from their wrists, just like Spider-Man. As the WEB Slinger vehicles progress, guests virtually pass through several other Campus addresses including Pym Test Kitchen, Avengers Headquarters and the Collector’s Fortress, also known as Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: BREAKOUT! As the mission continues, Spider-Bots will become harder and harder to beat as they continue to multiply.
To enable the most accurate and flexible guest interaction, Imagineers leveraged infrared cameras on the WEB Slinger vehicles to assess and analyze the actions of guests 60 times per second, tracking eye position, shoulders, elbows and wrists. The attraction identifies when guests move their arms and maps out the geometry of their web sling, rendering a 3D web in the interactive gameplay.
After helping Spider-Man trap the rogue Spider-Bots, guests will be able to see how many Spider-Bots they caught as a team in their vehicles.
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