VR Arcades and out-of-home, location based virtual reality (VR) is becoming increasingly popular. With Hologate’s opening in July with their Presence VR in Munich Germany Nina discusses Hologate VR.
With up to four players you can play with or against each other with no motion sickness, in HTC Vive headsets. You have the options to choose between two games, but the game showcased at Gamescom was a first-person shooter, sci-fi VR game where four players have to take down hoards of robotic drones, dragons and enemies. VRFocus put on a prototype haptic vest on and managed to play for 10 minutes, this is the average game time you get.
With teamspeak you are able to communicate with your friends or strangers, as you hide and duck under shields for cover. At the center of the four players is an area where you can power up your weapon, but you have to communicate as only one player can have access to this power up at a time.
Hologate is seeking to expand is working on a free-roaming warehouse scale project named Hologate X, which will be opening up in the near future. Although it seems that Presence VR is the only Hologate at the moment it looks like they will be expanding to Beijing and Los Angeles in the near future. Global scoreboards will also allow players in different countries to compete against one another.
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