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Bringing People Together: The Power of Shared VR Experiences

Competitive socialization is the new hot buzz in the location-based entertainment industry. New concepts are popping up everywhere. People love to socialize, and lighthearted, fun competition creates an experiential framework for people to spend a few hours together without the pressure of making conversation the focal point. Lucky Strike Entertainment started the competitive socialization trend […]

  • Bob Cooney
  • May 19th, 2023
Esports Igniters: Empowering Employees to Boost Customer Engagement
  • May 15th, 2023
Esports Igniters: Empowering Employees to Boost Customer Engagement
The VAR BOX was unveiled at the Amusement Expo International last year, and operators immediately saw its potential, awarding it…
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Lights, Camera, VR: Hollywood Streams into Virtual Reality Arcades
  • May 11th, 2023
Lights, Camera, VR: Hollywood Streams into Virtual Reality Arcades
The relationship between Hollywood and video games is a long and complicated one. Fans want more ways to interact with…
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Unleashing VR’s Potential: The Integrated VR Arcade
  • May 7th, 2023
The Integrated VR Arcade
One of the biggest challenges facing VR in family entertainment centers is that operators treat these products like arcade games.…
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The VR Time Crunch: Crafting an Experiential Occasion
  • May 3rd, 2023
The VR Time Crunch
There’s a reason that movies are 90 minutes or longer, escape rooms run for an hour, a line of bowling…
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Redefining Esports: Inside Jean Marriotte’s VR Game Plan
  • April 30th, 2023
The pandemic made it impossible to utilize the event center. And Sam had given up trying to make the esports business work independently. He admitted that the business would never make money without the food and beverage component. So now he’s in the process of turning his event center into a full-blown arcade.
For the last few years, I’ve been interested in the intersection of virtual reality, esports, and location-based entertainment. There’s been…
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Reviving the Game: How VR and Mixed Reality Are Transforming Laser Tag
  • April 26th, 2023
Limitless VR from Creative Works
Laser tag has endured in the FEC industry for one reason. Throughput. It’s one of the most space-efficient anchor attractions…
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Blast from the Past: Merging Laser Tag and Virtual Reality in the Quest for Immersive Entertainment
  • April 22nd, 2023
Image credit: Laser Tag Museum
I was a penny-stock broker in the Wolf of Wall Street days in the mid-1980s. Many of my clients were…
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The Cable Nightmare is Over
  • April 18th, 2023
Hair thin wires of the HDMI cable
It’s been the industry’s bane since this VR wave showed up in 2016. It’s extremely rare for operators to agree…
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What is “Location-based Entertainment”?
  • April 10th, 2023
Written by ChatGPT The first reference to the term “location-based entertainment” (LBE) is challenging to pinpoint precisely, as it likely…
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Escaping Reality: Next Gen Puzzle Adventures
  • April 7th, 2023
VR escape rooms have been around since the early days of VR arcades. They typically allow up to 4-6 players,…
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From Boom to Bust to Revival: The Transformation of VR Arcades
  • April 3rd, 2023
The first VR arcades started popping up in China in 2015. Internet cafés had been all the rage for the…
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The VOID Unraveled: 7 Factors Behind the Downfall of a VR Revolution
  • March 25th, 2023
I get asked all the time what happened to The VOID. The narrative created by their management team was that…
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Here are the tech trends shaping the VR industry
  • March 22nd, 2023
Bob Cooney with HTC's new Vive XR Elite
HTC VIVE XR Elite: Hands-on Review In February of this year, I was invited to speak about why the metaverse…
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VR for Trampoline and Adventure Parks
  • November 25th, 2022
VR for Trampoline and Adventure Parks
It was only in 2004 that the first indoor trampoline park opened under the SkyZone banner. Since then, over 600…
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Cut the Crap: VR Laser Tag
  • November 21st, 2022
As the founder of Laser Storm in 1989, I know a thing or two about laser tag. While I am…
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Build Community and Recurring Revenue with VR Esports
  • November 17th, 2022
Build Community and Recurring Revenue with VR Esports
Esports is exploding. It’s expected to grow past $2 billion in annual revenue by the end of 2022, from only…
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Paradrop VR Profile
  • November 14th, 2022
PARADROP VR
Matt Wells is a badass. A former British army paratrooper, mountain climber, expedition leader, and entrepreneur with a passion for…
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Hologate Profile
  • November 10th, 2022
Hologate Profile
If there’s one company to credit with the beginning of the VR arcade revolution for family entertainment centers, it’s Hologate.…
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Hero Zone Profile
  • November 6th, 2022
Hero Zone Profile
I first met the team at Hero Zone in the summer of 2019. It was a small team that developed…
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Valo Motion Profile
  • November 2nd, 2022
Valo Motion Profile
How many amusement products have come from post-doctoral theses? CEO and founder Raine Kajastila’s research to determine if technology can…
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VRsenal Profile
  • October 28th, 2022
VRsenal Profile
VRsenal is the creator of the rugged, fully automated VR arcade game system. Since 2017, they’ve been working relentlessly to…
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VR for Birthday Parties
  • October 24th, 2022
VR for Birthday Parties
Add Up to $150K Per Year in Party Revenue Birthday parties are the lifeblood of any FEC. Over the last…
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The Major VR Headset Suppliers
  • October 20th, 2022
The Major VR Headset Suppliers
HTC VIVE AND THE FOCUS 3 HTC VIVE was the first headset to dominate the VR arcade space. They were…
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Cut the Crap: Competitive Socialization
  • October 16th, 2022
Cut the Crap: Competitive Socialization
Everybody wants to create competitive VR games. I get it. Esports is getting lots of attention. And the term “competitive…
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VR Terms You Need to Know
  • October 12th, 2022
VR Terms You Need to Know
ALL IN ONE “All in one” or standalone headsets incorporate the main processor, GPU, and tracking cameras into the headset.…
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Predicting the Future: The New VR Arcade Ecosystem
  • October 8th, 2022
Predicting the Future: The New VR Arcade Ecosystem
The VIVE Focus 3 VR headset is set to become the new standard for location-based VR, and it’s going to…
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Looking forward
  • October 4th, 2022
What is “Location-based Entertainment”?
As the virtual reality ecosystem evolves rapidly, here are challenges and opportunities for our industry in the next year. CHALLENGES…
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VR is Here to Stay
  • October 1st, 2022
VR is Here to Stay
Virtual reality continues to expand into the location-based entertainment market, and the use of the technology will continue to accelerate.…
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