The highly popular fight between Muhammed Ali and George Foreman, known as the Rumble in the Jungle, is to become an interactive VR experience.
Rematch, a theatre specialist, is creating LockerRoom, a Muhammad Ali VR experience. Together with StoryFutures, they will create a behind-the-scenes interactive VR experience for fight fans to marvel.
Images from yesteryear and library music have been used to bring the fight to a new reality. You’ll be immersed in locker rooms before the duel commences.
It was Ali who knocked out Foreman in the eighth round of the “Rumble in the Jungle,” a bout played out in Kinshasa, Zaire.
The technology will be available in over 150 VR headsets, throughout the UK.
Rematch founder Richard Ayers said: “At Rematch, our mission is to connect generations of families by helping the world to reimagine and experience the greatest moments in sporting history. Rematch was born as a hybrid media company – as comfortable in the real world as the virtual.
“Alongside industry-leading partners such as StoryFutures, we are now able to take that to the next level through these incredible and immersive experiences.
“By leveraging the power of blockchain and virtual reality, we are creating an ecosystem of both live and Web3 products and experiences that are both interactive and engaging for fans. We believe this is the future of sport and entertainment, porting physical events into the at-home digital world so that a broader set of fans can take part.”
