VALENCIA, Calif. The experience is jaunting — you are set to ride a traditional roller coaster, you buckle up and get ready to climb a huge hill — but what you see is unlike any theme park ride ever.

The New York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas will add a virtual reality experience to the Big Apple roller coaster. (Tomek Pleskaczynski) The New York-New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas will ...

Jenny Alvarez, left, and Alfonso De Elias prepare to ride the New Revolution Virtual Reality roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, Calif., in March 2016. (Al Seib/Los Angeles ...

At Six Flags theme parks in the U.S., the price of regular admission — roughly $50 — gives you access to a roller coaster redone with virtual reality overlaid on top. At Magic Mountain near Los ...

A video of a Chicago-area woman freaking out while on a virtual reality roller coaster is making the rounds of social media. The unnamed woman was in a hospital waiting room with her children, waiting ...

My 10-year-old was recently strapped into a boxy neon, pod with a pair of virtual reality goggles covering her eyes. The goggles were almost bigger than her head, but not so big that I couldn’t see ...

At Six Flags theme parks in the U.S., the price of regular admission — roughly $50 — gives you access to a roller coaster redone with virtual reality overlaid on top.