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Y’all want to see something WILD?
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Sorry, sorry, maybe we should have given you a little more warning before we showed you pure nightmare fuel on a plain old Friday morning. But honestly, we gotta talk about Disney’s new robot.
Walt Disney Imagineering is known for being on the front edge of technology.
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We focus a lot on the innovations that could be used in the theme parks or other entertainment destinations — like this crazy zombie-fighting virtual reality invention! But sometimes, Disney works hard to bring us brand new technology that we could use in our own homes!
Disney is pretty well known for pushing the envelope when it comes to technical advancements, and that includes when it comes to outfitting a guest’s theme park experience.
Disney Genie Concept Art
Disney has revealed some big upcoming changes to mobile technology. In addition to the upcoming release of the Disney Genie vacation planning application, Disney also plans to discontinue free MagicBands in favor of mobile expansion.
Now, we’ve spotted a few recent Disney patents that may have something to do with this innovation on the mobile front. Imagineers have been working on developing an artificially intelligent virtual agent and we’re wondering: Could this be what we can expect with Disney Genie?
Walt Disney Imagineering is often at the forefront of advancing technology. These Imagineers are the reason we have marvels like Rise of the Resistance and Flight of Passage. They’re also the reason we have moderately frightening images like this:
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We’ll explain in a little. 🙂 The point is, Imagineers spend their days figuring out how to make high-tech experiences accessible to Disney consumers worldwide. Today, five new patents have popped up that might give us an idea of the sort of tech we could see in the not-so-distant future of Disney parks and products — and they could mean immersion like never before.
Sports fans have had a serious eye on Disney in recent weeks.
ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex
Between the NBA’s season restart and the MLS is Back tournament, Disney World is home to a big piece of the return of live sports. Of course, that’s not Disney’s ONLY collection to sports — the company also owns ESPN, and it looks like they might’ve invented something NEAT for sports fans.
It’s pretty common knowledge that Disney knows what they’re doing when it comes to tech.
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Still, sometimes their inventions are pretty shocking (Don’t worry, we’ll explain that scary pic in a second.). From watching our every move while we’re in the parks to cranking out ride systems, Disney is ALWAYS innovating. Well, today we spotted one of the weirdest inventions we’ve EVER seen from Disney. Take a look — if you dare!
The Epcot Transformation has been underway for a while now.
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Honestly, we’re not sure what to look forward to the most. Is it perhaps the upcoming nighttime spectacular, Harmonious? Or maybe it’s World Celebration and Dreamers Point? Well, we certainly can’t discount the innovative and mysterious Play Pavilion. And it IS mysterious — but we might have just figured out even MORE of what will be inside!
With the Disney parks closed, it can be weird to think about upcoming expansions and updates.
Disney World
But, as Walt Disney would say, we’ve got to “keep moving forward!” And that’s exactly what teams of innovators and Imagineers are doing behind the scenes right now.
The last couple of months have shown us a whole slew of new cutting-edge inventions that Disney has been working on. We’re taking a look at the Disney patents to see what could be coming to Disney parks in the future!
Of all the upcoming Disney World updates, we’re pretty excited to see what Disney does with the Star Wars Hotel.
Star Wars Lightsaber Experience
The Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser is set to be a 2-night ultra-immersive experience that opens in 2021. Aboard, you’ll be able to look out windows into space, operate the ship’s defense systems, and offer guests the chance to wield their own lightsaber. Woah! That lightsaber experience sounds pretty cool and, before today, we weren’t sure how we could ACTUALLY wield a lightsaber. Now though, Disney might have developed some tech that could help!
Disney is always working on some crazy new tech, and WE’RE always looking out for their newest innovations!
Hondo Ohnaka
Imagineers have been doing a lot of work on tech for the parks and a LOT of that has to do with robotics. Disney is at the forefront of animatronic and entertainment robotics engineering, so they come up with crazy new inventions ALL THE TIME. Recently, we’ve spotted a realistic robot handshake and a patent for an autonomous park-roaming robot. Today, we spotted a NEW patent and this one focuses on a robot’s…skin? You read that right! Take a look!
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