VRstudios Announces VRcade® Terminal 17 – World’s First 8-Player Arena-Scale Virtual Reality Game Built Using NVIDIA® V...
August 17 2017 - 6:00AM
Business Wire
VRcade Arena Inaugural Experience Sets a New
Standard for Location-Based Virtual Reality
VRstudios, the leading provider of award-winning VR solutions
for Location-Based Entertainment (LBE), announces today the
availability of a remarkable VR attraction, Terminal 17©. Terminal
17 is an intense, multiplayer adventure game specifically designed
for the VRcade Arena. Players are part of an 8-person extermination
squad tasked with finding and eliminating alien insects that are
wreaking havoc on Terminal 17, a remote facility on a distant
planet.
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Terminal 17 showing 8 Players in a VRcade
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“Terminal 17 was designed from the ground up to maximize the
extensive capabilities of the VRcade Arena and our Attraction
Management Platform (AMP),” said Kevin Vitale, VRstudios’ CEO.
“VRstudios is committed to using the best available tools and
partnering with VR industry leaders like NVIDIA to create exciting
next-generation experiences.”
Leveraging the new features of Unity 2017.1 and NVIDIA’s VRWorks
Unity Plugin, Terminal 17 demonstrates a milestone in visual
fidelity and performance for LBE VR arena-scale content. Terminal
17 specifically takes advantage of features like Single-Pass Stereo
and Lens Matched Shading (which also enables Multi-Res Shading) to
give the experience a boost in performance. This improves the
overall visual quality by running Terminal 17 at higher resolution
with additional post-processing effects.
“VRcade Arena is a prime example of technology and fun
converging to deliver a one-of-a-kind VR experience,” said Jason
Paul, general manager of gaming software and virtual reality at
NVIDIA. “NVIDIA’s VRWorks plug-in for Unity proved to be a quick
and simple way for VRstudios to achieve their performance goals for
the experience.”
VRstudios’ latest attraction provides an unparalleled,
feature-rich VR gaming experience. Players journey through a
massive virtual world by physically walking around the VRcade
Arena, and using a variety of virtual transportation methods.
Players communicate with each other to cooperatively solve puzzles
and advance through multiple areas of Terminal 17.
Terminal 17 Features:
- Large-scale, VRcade Arena attraction –
2,400 square feet
- Co-op team and competitive
action/adventure for up to 8 players
- 2 episodes, 15 minutes each (sequential
or separate)
- In-game voice-chat
- Logic puzzles, boss fights, and secret
passageways
- Robust scoring features and hidden
bonuses
“Terminal 17 is the kind of high-action, epic, multiplayer game
that’s only possible because of the breakthrough VRcade Arena
system. Everything from the narrative, to the breathtaking visuals
and immersive audio, to the player interaction combine to provide a
one-of-a-kind experience,” said Chanel Summers, VRstudios’ Vice
President of Creative Development.
LBE owners and operators interested in adding leading-edge,
immersive VR Attractions to their business may contact VRstudios
via email at arena@vrstudios.com for more information or to
schedule a demonstration. The VRcade Arena and its custom
attractions will also be demonstrated at the 2017 IAAPA
(International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions) Expo
in Orlando in November.
About VRstudios:
VRstudios (www.vrstudios.com) is the VR industry’s premier
global provider of Location-Based Entertainment solutions.
VRstudios is a turnkey VR solution provider that makes it easy for
owners and operators of theme parks, family entertainment centers,
cinemas and casinos to offer innovative virtual reality attractions
to their guests. VRstudios’ Attraction Management Platform (AMP)
enables quick installation and efficient operation of VR
attractions. VRstudios launched in 2014 as the first company to
offer out-of-home fully immersive VR with free-roaming, wireless
and untethered, multi-player capabilities.
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