Immersive Entertainment – your quick guide
05/04/2023
What is Immersive Entertainment?
‘Immersive’ is the buzzword for increasingly popular new and exciting entertainment. Mentions are everywhere in the media. The high-tech BBC show Click often champions the newest AI, VR and immersive games. Being an event leader and bringing something new and exciting for your event attendees is so important to stay ahead of the game. Immersive entertainment refers to experiences that fully engage the senses, moreover, they can create a sense of immersion in a new world or environment. This can include virtual reality, augmented reality, immersive theatre, escape rooms, and interactive games. There are many different types of immersive entertainment that offer a one-of-a-kind experience.
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Immersive Entertainment for hire in London, Brighton and The South East
So, let’s start at the very top! If you have a nice, healthy budget or would like to create a more permanent venue installation, there are some truly ground-breaking solutions.
With Augmented Reality, our character actors interact directly with you alongside a layer of computer imagery over the real world. Augmented reality tours can, therefore, be inspirational for educational purposes too.
With virtual reality, the user is fully immersed in a virtual world using headsets, motion and sensory experiences that can even include perfume. Allowing users to explore and interact with the environment in a unique way. Many of these experiences for example, can put you inside a masterpiece painting, historical or fantasy game environment.
Of course, experiences like this require a big financial outlay plus technical and set installation. But don’t worry, we have some brilliant, cost-effective immersive entertainment alternatives!
Affordable immersive entertainment for hire in London, Brighton and The South East
If you’re looking to add some more affordable excitement and wonder to your next event or party, then you’ve come to the right place. In this article, we’ll explore some of the best immersive entertainment ideas that are sure to captivate and engage your audience without breaking the bank.
Interactive, Immersive Theatre Performances
- Allows the audience to become a part of the performance.
- Often set in unique locations or ‘site specific’ so themed to fit the venue.
- Offers a different type of storytelling that engages the senses and imagination.
Escape Rooms
- Requires players to work together to solve puzzles.
- Offers a thrilling and exciting experience that challenges the mind.
- Can be customized to fit different themes and genres.
Immersive Dining Experiences
- Combines themed food and drink with a uniquely immersive experience.
- Often ‘site specific’ so themed to fit the venue or surroundings.
- Creates a highly memorable alternative to a standard dinner with entertainment.
Live Action Role-Playing Games
- Allows players to fully immerse themselves in a character and story.
- Often set in a fictional world or time.
- Provides a unique and interactive experience, in order to combine storytelling and games.
Our ready-made affordable immersive entertainment shows for hire in London, Brighton and The South East
All our themed shows can incorporate various games and puzzles to suit your entertainment concept. We can utilise projections and props, so we can bring easily installed impact for each show.
A small selection of our immersive entertainment shows
Roaring 20’s – Great Gatsby
With the help of our guests and a big reveal, our hostess transforms a pious fellowship meeting into a jumping gin joint. Featuring themed performers, a raid by the cops, immersive storylines, Charleston lessons and more.
Vintage Circus – The Greatest Show
Our irrepressible ring mistress introduces the thrills and spills of this vintage circus theme show! The Greatest Victorian Showman will astonish us with his jaw-dropping exhibits and wild stunts. Not only that, the night culminates in a dance party with the circus troupe and a visit to a spellbinding fortune teller!
The Haunted Mansion Party
Our ‘bewitching’ hostess is holding a dinner party in her haunted mansion. With every knock at the door that her creepy butler answers the night just gets weirder and weirder. Trick or Treat-style games and interaction plus a huge performance finale.
The Superfly Seventies Show
We time travel back to the 1970’s top ‘nite spot’ and enjoy a Tequilla Sunrise at the bar. Taking a hilarious journey through what we thought was super chic back in the decade that style forgot. Moreover, you can win authentic retro prizes in our glittering 70s game show, all followed by a very large helping of Boogie Wonderland!
Rockstars & Popstars TV Time Machine
You are a V.I.P. guest at our secret TV studio. Witness the first ‘broadcast’ of our Rockstars and Popstars TV Time Machine, as we rewind and fast-forward through classic music TV history. There’s music TV hosting unplugged, a ‘Massaoke’ stage invasion, and much more!
Come Fly With Me
Join the jet set with Electric Cabaret Airlines. Check in with your ticket at our special departure lounge and then take to the skies for our around-the-world ‘flight’. Discover themed immersive entertainment from around the globe: Paris/Vegas/Rio an unscheduled spooky stop at Transylvania, and even a trip to space await our intrepid travellers.
Cocktails at the North Pole
Santa has invited you to his cocktail party at the North Pole. He is modernising his brand and outsourcing so he can spend more time indulging his passion for lounge singing. Santa is still on call, however; Amazon doesn’t seem to be getting to grips with the ‘naughty or nice’ file. DHL keep getting stuck in chimneys! Will Santa decide the outsourcing plans and the Christmas crooning may have to wait?
The Christmas TV show
Our TV announcer sets the scene before we all settle down with the Radio Times for a night of Christmas telly with all the usual favourites. The audience is allowed to change the channel on our special giant remote control. Don’t forget to check in with our BBC weather forecast – will it be a White Christmas?!
Further info on all our immersive shows can be seen on our SHOWS PAGE.
We love to work with clients to write brand-new custom performances that fit the unique needs of your event. Whether you are looking for a specific theme or have a completely original concept in mind, our performers can bring your vision to life.
Our Immersive Entertainment Performers for Hire: Elevating Your Smaller Events
Our immersive performers are highly trained professionals who specialize in creating captivating experiences for guests. They can be booked separately for role-playing, improvisation, hosting and audience interaction. They can provide a variety of performances, such as roaming characters to full-scale productions.
Our performers are well-versed in a variety of themes, in order to customise their performance to fit the unique needs of your event. Highly skilled at interacting with audiences, encouraging participation and engagement. They can create interactive experiences, in order to make your guests feel like they are part of the performance. From the moment guests arrive, our performers can create an immersive experience that transports them to a different time or place.
What kind of events do we cater to?
Whether you are planning a small intimate gathering or a large-scale event, we have the expertise and experience to make it a success. Our immersive entertainment performers are flexible and adaptable, so they can work with different types of venues and audiences.
Corporate Events:
Our immersive performers are trained to create a world that is unique to your brand and message, engaging your audience in a way that is both entertaining and informative. We work closely with our clients to understand their goals and objectives and tailor our immersive entertainment to meet their needs.
Private Parties:
We know that private parties are all about having fun, and our immersive performers will ensure that your guests have the time of their lives. From interactive theatre to immersive dance performances. Our performers will create a world that is unique to your event.
Weddings:
Our immersive entertainment performers can add a touch of magic to your special day, in order to create an unforgettable experience for you and your guests.. Working closely with our clients we offer a wide range of immersive performances, including dance, theatre, music, and more.
Conclusion:
Whether you’re looking to host a birthday party, corporate event, wedding or just a fun night with friends, immersive entertainment ideas are a great way to create lasting memories and engage your guests. With so many options available, the possibilities are endless.
So why wait?