Interstellar Arc

Interstellar Arc closed in August 2026 after less than a year: ticket sales stopped on August 18 when its producer, Felix & Paul Studios, shut down, and AREA15's CEO told the Review-Journal in September that it is done unless a way to reopen it is found. No reopening has been announced as of September 22, 2026. While it ran, it was the most ambitious virtual reality build Las Vegas had seen: a free-roaming voyage from Emmy-winning Felix & Paul Studios that compresses a 262-year trip to the exoplanet Arcadia - 11 light-years from Earth - into a single hour. You board at a spaceport in AREA15's new Terminals district, slip into cryosleep aboard a deep-space transport, and wake on final approach to humanity's new home, where a synthetic-intelligence guide shaped like a blue fox, the Diplomat, preps you for arrival. Then you step off and explore alien landscapes on foot. Instead of the stationary pods that pass for VR elsewhere in town, you're walking a physical set bigger than four basketball courts while the headset paints Arcadia around you.

It opened on October 22, 2025, and while it ran the honest caveats were structural rather than quality complaints. The advertised hour includes check-in, the tutorial, and a post-arrival wind-down, so actual headset time runs shorter than the marquee number. The standard ticket locks you to a specific departure slot - flexibility is sold separately as the Anytime Pass. And it's still VR at its core: the low-motion design keeps queasiness rare, but it won't win over someone who simply hates wearing a headset. The Terminals sit on the AREA15 campus west of I-15 - a short rideshare from the Strip, not a walk.