Atlantis: The Immersive Odyssey is a walk-through underwater experience that puts visitors inside the lost city of Plato’s legend, using wraparound projection, LED rooms, shared free-roam VR, interactive displays and AI portraits. XSEDES is developing its India edition under the X-IMMERSIVE division, with Kochi planned as the first city.
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What it is
A walk-through immersive experience with shared free-roam VR
The story
The lost city of Atlantis, from Plato’s Timaeus and Critias
Technology
Projection mapping, LED rooms, VR, AI, holographic effects, robotic cameras, 3D capture
India edition
In development by XSEDES, X-IMMERSIVE division
First city in India
Kochi, Kerala (planned; venue and dates not yet announced)
Format
Modular and touring, planned at about 45 days in each city
Made for
Families, children, young adults, school and college groups, private bookings
Earlier editions
Brussels, 2023 · Doha, 2024
The visitor journey
A destination, not an exhibition
Atlantis is built as one story in six beats. You do not tour a row of rooms: the story escalates from a quiet gateway to something you made yourself.
01
Enter
Step out of the everyday and through a gateway into the deep.
02
Explore
Stand inside the ocean, then walk through the city with the people you came with.
03
Interact
Touch the legend and it answers: artefacts rise, creatures turn, a map rebuilds.
04
Create
Your face, your movement and your drawing become part of the world.
05
Share
Each creative room ends with something ready to send.
06
Remember
A print, a coffee and something from the shop before you surface.
Inside the experience
What you do inside Atlantis
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Enter
The boat room
A long timber boat with the proportions of a Kerala vallam rests beside a wall of LED ocean. Visitors sit in it and look out at the sunken city, so the journey begins on Kerala water and ends somewhere else.
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Explore
The immersive ocean
Projection covers the walls and the floor, and a mirror wall doubles the room. Shoals circle overhead and scatter from children’s feet. Run through it, or sit and let it pass. It is the room most people will photograph first.
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Explore
The shared free-roam VR arena
Put on a headset and the arena becomes the lost city. There is no seat and no treadmill: you walk, crouch and reach, and you see your own group beside you inside the same world, at the same moment.
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Interact
The interactive hall
Four stations tell four chapters: the lost city, its ecosystem, its ancient technology, and the line between myth and reality. Transparent screens and holographic effects respond to touch, so visitors do not just view artefacts. They meet them.
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Create
The AI portal
Step onto the ring and choose a world: Atlantis or Kerala. Moments later you see yourself transformed as one of its citizens, ready to keep and share. Photographs are taken only with consent.
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Share
The robotic camera and 3D scan
A robotic arm sweeps a cinematic camera around your group for a slow-motion vertical clip. A separate full-body scan turns a visitor into a 3D figure for the screens of the room.
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Create
The children’s drawing world
A child draws any sea creature at a glowing table. It is scanned, and it swims across the wall with everyone else’s drawings. It is the simplest technology in the building, and it may well be the room parents remember most.
These rooms come from the Indian masterplan, which describes up to 16 zones. The touring route is still being finalised, so the rooms may change from venue to venue. The café and shop close the visit.
How it compares
How Atlantis differs from a projection show, a VR arcade or a museum
Most attractions do one of these things. Atlantis is designed to combine the surrounding image of a projection show, the shared presence of VR and the participation of an interactive room, inside one story.
Typical formats compared with the planned Atlantis experience
Format
What you do
The story
How you share it
Atlantis: The Immersive Odyssey
Walk, touch, create, and enter VR with your group
One story from gateway to café
Together, at your own pace
Projection art show
Sit or stand and watch a surrounding film
Usually one artist or theme, one main room
Together, as an audience
VR arcade or VR game centre
Play a short game or a ride
A menu of separate titles
Often one player or one team per session
Museum or exhibition
Look and read
Objects and panels
Quietly, side by side
Amusement park
Ride, swim and spend the day
Separate rides
A full day, mostly outdoors
Who it is for
Made for people who came together
Families
A shared outing with something for every age, from a child’s drawing on the wall to a grandparent in the ocean room.
Young adults
Walk-through VR with friends, AI portraits and rooms worth posting.
Schools and colleges
A story that opens up Plato, marine life and the technology of immersive media.
Kerala visitors
A reason to add an indoor stop to a Kochi itinerary, in any weather.
Companies
Private evenings, team outings and launches inside the story.
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Where it has been
Brussels, Doha, and now India
2023
Brussels
ActiveMe, the Belgian immersive studio, opened Atlantis on 14 October 2023 at the CUPRA GARAGE in the City, with LED walls, interactive zones and a multi-user VR world.
Atlantis ran at Msheireb Galleria in 2024, listed for families and friends, and concluded on 31 August 2024. Mirsab Al Rahman, now Managing Partner of XSEDES, led the launch.
XSEDES is developing a modular edition for Indian cities under X-IMMERSIVE, with ActiveMe as its planned technology and content partner, and Kerala written into the story.
Kochi has visitors, a strong family outing culture and few places where technology and storytelling meet at this scale. Kerala is also the other half of the story: its boats and backwaters open the journey, and the AI portal offers a Kerala world beside the Atlantis one.
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4,429,891
domestic tourist visits to Ernakulam district in 2025, plus 276,096 foreign visits
touring immersive projection shows in Kerala, in our desk study of South India from 2016 to October 2026
XSEDES desk study, October 2026
Partner with Atlantis
Bring Atlantis to your city
Venues
Malls, halls and exhibition centres in Kochi and other Indian cities. Tell us the floor area and clear height you can offer.
Brands
Rooms, portraits and films that sit inside the story, not beside it. Packages are agreed for each city.
Schools and colleges
Register interest for group visits, and we will write when dates and details are set.
Tourism and institutions
Help place Atlantis on a Kerala itinerary or in a cultural season.
X-IMMERSIVE designs the experience; XSEDES engineers, fabricates, installs and operates it with one team. About X-IMMERSIVE →
Questions
Questions about Atlantis.
What is Atlantis: The Immersive Odyssey?
It is a walk-through underwater experience set in the lost city of Atlantis. Visitors move through themed rooms that combine wraparound projection, LED walls, interactive displays, AI portraits and shared free-roam VR. XSEDES is developing its India edition under the X-IMMERSIVE division.
Is Atlantis open in Kochi or anywhere in India?
Not yet. The India edition is in development, and Kochi is the planned first city. No venue or opening date has been announced. This page will carry them as soon as they are confirmed, so anything claiming dates or tickets before then is not from XSEDES.
How much are tickets, and how do I book?
Tickets are not on sale and prices have not been announced. Booking details will appear on this page once a venue and dates are confirmed. Schools, colleges and groups can register interest now through the XSEDES contact form.
How long does the experience take?
The Doha edition’s official page advised allowing about one hour. The length of the India edition depends on the final route, and it will be published with the booking details.
What age is Atlantis suitable for?
The Doha edition was described as suitable for children aged six and over. Age guidance for the India edition, including any separate limit for the VR arena, will be published before tickets go on sale. A children’s drawing world is part of the masterplan.
What is free-roam VR?
Free-roam VR means you walk around a real room while wearing a headset, rather than sitting in a seat or standing on a treadmill. In Atlantis, your group shares one virtual city at the same time, so you can see each other and explore it together.
Do I have to use VR, and will I get wet?
Most of the planned rooms use projection and screens, with no headset. The VR arena is one part of the visit, and arrangements for anyone who prefers to skip it will be confirmed with the route. You will not get wet: the ocean is made entirely of light and sound.
Is it connected to the Atlantis hotels in Dubai or the Bahamas?
No. Atlantis: The Immersive Odyssey is a touring immersive experience and has no connection to the Atlantis resorts. The name comes from the same legend, which appears in Plato’s writing.
Was Atlantis a real place?
There is no physical evidence that it was. Atlantis comes from two dialogues Plato wrote around 360 BC, the Timaeus and the Critias, and scholars generally read it as a moral and political story. The experience treats it as a legend worth entering, not as history.
Who is behind the India edition?
XSEDES, an experiential multimedia technology and engineering company, is developing it under its X-IMMERSIVE division. ActiveMe, the Belgian studio behind the 2023 Brussels edition, is its planned technology and content partner.
Where will it go after Kochi?
The India edition is designed to be modular, so it can pack up and move to another city after a run of about 45 days. Further cities will be announced as venues are confirmed. Venues interested in hosting it can contact XSEDES.
Can my venue or brand partner with Atlantis?
Yes, XSEDES is opening conversations with venues, brands, schools, colleges and tourism bodies. Send the city, the space and what you have in mind through the contact form. The team replies with what the experience needs and how a partnership could work.
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What is planned, and what is not yet settled
The India edition has not opened, and venue, dates, prices, final rooms and age guidance are still to be confirmed. Every visual on this page is an AI concept illustration of the planned experience, not a photograph of an earlier edition. Details of earlier editions come from the public sources listed here.
