Basically we’re pretty sure it’s even more exciting than those massage chairs you get at airports. Using new-gen Hollywood motion capture cameras, 3D precision full-body trackers and those nifty feedback suits, it creates an experience of touch, vibration and motion for the wearer. Now, on to the techie bit of how they do this: using advanced technology, Sandbox VR creates a social gaming adventure that puts players inside interactive worlds as if they were living inside a game or movie. Still, given this is a gaming environment, that’s why you’re there: to have the full ‘ Ready Player One’ experience. Translated into English, that basically means that you get to feel everything, whether that’s being cold, being warm, and even – slightly scarily – being shot. Foul queues at the bar, begone!ĭespite being so central, it has capacity for 300 people and, in a UK first, it boasts free-roam team games with full-on haptic suits. You’ll feel like you’ve walked straight out of Urban Outfitters and into ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (always an attractive exchange, and probably less disorientating than the other way round) and there’s the additional lure of a state-of-the-art robotic bartender that can make 80 drinks an hour. Opening this summer, (sign up here for early access) this virtual reality environment and self-styled ‘social space’ is in the heart of Covent Garden rather than on some remote industrial wasteland that barely sees a bus or tube from one day to the next, and it’s aimed fairly and squarely at grown-ups. If it feels as though the whole of London is turning into one giant immersive experiment, with so many popping up all over the place, then Sandbox VR London will confirm your worst fears.
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