COMPANY PROFILE
Holovis Attractions Bittesby Campus, Mere Lane, Nr Magna Park, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, LE17 4JH UK
Tel: +44 1455 553 924 Email: info@holovis.com Twitter: @holovisint Facebook: www.facebook.com/Holovis LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/holovis
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Background Holovis is a privately owned company established in 2004 by CEO Stuart Hetherington. He is joined by Joe Jurado, Technical Director and Andrew Brown, Strategy Director and the 90-plus strong Holovis Attractions and Holovis Media team. The company is unique in having an in-house software development team and a creative media and gaming division that work in unison to gamify new and existing attractions, creating a whole new level of guest experiences.
Main products and services Holovis creates scalable, interactive and media-based attractions, customisable to every guest using real-time media, 360° immersive visuals, spatial audio, synched motion and SFX. Outside of core attractions, Holovis uses Mixed Reality (MR) to extend the guest experience, transforming any passive element with Augmented Reality and creating facility wide apps that enable gaming.
Additional products Holovis specialises in experiential design with its proprietary software RideView™ bringing data to life in high-end virtual reality environments. Using desktop VR or CAVEs, teams are immersed in real-time data and able to explore in 1:1 scale. This accelerates
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decision making, allowing multi-disciplined teams to review, simulate and interact together, enabling higher project efficiently, cost and time savings.
USPs Holovis provides complete turnkey solutions with an experienced team of show producers, engineers, creative and experiential design experts. Driven through robust project management processes and a dedicated PMO, projects are de-risked by removing unnecessary third-party requirements and being directly responsible and accountable. The team specialises in experiential attraction design, starting with the creative story and building the correct solution around this to fully immerse audiences.
Plans for 2016/17 Holovis will continue to develop Mixed Reality platforms, leading the way with solutions that extend and personalise the experience to prolong and add value to the brand exposure. The company also has an office opening in Orlando which will feature a high-end virtual reality CAVE for visualisation of all projects and for multi team in-depth development work to be conducted on site in RideView™.
2016/2017 trade shows Holovis will be prominent at Asian Attractions Expo, Euro Attractions Show and IAAPA Attractions Expo. People can also visit the Holovis Demonstration Campus in Lutterworth, UK, just 40 minutes from London.
Who’s who? Key customers Flagship projects include visualisation, design and delivery of e-ticket attractions to Ferrari World Abu Dhabi and Dubai Parks and Resorts, design and turnkey delivery of multiple FECs in China and AR gamification development extending whole park experiences for Cedar Fair USA.
Stuart Hetherington, CEO; Joe Jurado, Technical Director; Andrew Brown, Strategy Director; Mike Ross, Attractions Development Manager.
What the clients say
Where in the world?
“Holovis gave what I like to call all-thingsmagical to the project. They animated wonder into the sunset sky mural and underscored the whole thing. Holovis played an integral role in the story-telling of Flying Aces.”
Holovis works globally operating from our offices in the UK, USA, China and Middle East.
George Walker, Creative Director, Ferrari World, Abu Dhabi ATTRACTIONS HANDBOOK 2016-2017 203