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EVA licensed the Rabbids from Ubisoft. They built a free-roam multiplayer game. It’s called Rabbids: Color Chaos. It’s playing now at EVA arenas around the world. EVA operates 80 arenas across 10 countries. They say more than a million people have already been through the door.
Two teams. 500 square meters. Ten players. Forty minutes.
It’s VR paintball with Rabbids skins. You run. You shoot. You mark the floor and the walls in your team’s color. Whoever paints more wins. Simple.
The Rabbids fit the format. The IP is chaotic and physical and does not take itself seriously. The match works.
Tickets start at 20 euros per person. Prices move with the location, the time, and the team size. EVA also sells a monthly pass starting at 59 euros. Cancel it anytime. It’s a gym-membership model for VR arcade play, aimed at frequent visitors ages ten and up.
EVA runs the Pico 4 Ultra Enterprise. They made the switch in September 2025 after being on VIVE since 2018.
That matters for operators watching hardware. Pico’s enterprise line is being deployed at real scale by an operator with 70+ venues. This is not a pilot. It is not a press-release deployment. It’s a huge network switching its tech stack mid-stream.
Disclosure: Pico is a LEXRA founding member. HTC VIVE is on the LEXRA board.
Ubisoft has done this before. In 2022 they licensed Far Cry to Zero Latency. Now Rabbids goes to EVA. Two Ubisoft properties, two free-roam operators, two different tones. Far Cry is guns and jungle for adults. Rabbids is chaos and color for families. The same IP owner is playing both ends of the audience.
The wider pattern is louder. Zero Latency is building a Cyberpunk 2077 experience with CD PROJEKT RED. Sandbox VR is running Stranger Things with Netflix. Banijay is opening Black Mirror at Phi Studio in Montreal with Univrse. Behaviour Interactive is working on Blade Runner with Phi Studio.
Gaming publishers, TV studios, film studios. All of them are in. Each one is picking an operator or a platform partner and shipping a title. The catalog is growing every quarter.
For operators, that changes the pitch. A year ago the IP conversation was thin. Now it is crowded. Guests recognize the names on the marquee. Landlords underwrite the venue differently when the content has brand behind it.
The 59-euro monthly pass is the piece worth watching.
Most LBE pricing is per-visit. Guests come, pay, leave, and the operator hopes they come back. A monthly subscription flips that. It commits the frequent player up front. It smooths the revenue. It also raises the bar on content refresh, because a subscriber who plays the same game four times will cancel.
Rabbids: Color Chaos is one title. EVA has EVA Karting GP coming, too. They have their own e-sports league. The catalog has to keep growing or the subscription math breaks.
The subscription model is not new to LBE. Fitness studios did it first. Climbing gyms did it. Bowling alleys tried it. Urban Air, too. Some worked. Some did not. What works is a catalog deep enough to earn the monthly commitment. And a retention loop which EVE seems to have mastered.
A few things worth tracking.
Whether Rabbids: Color Chaos travels well outside France. EVA is a French operator with a French sense of humor and a French audience that grew up with the Rabbids. The IP is global on paper. The venue reception in Cologne and Unna will be the first real read on whether it lands in other markets.
Whether Ubisoft goes further. Rabbids went to LAI for an arcade coaster sim in 2017. They then released their own escape games. Far Cry went to Zero Latency in 2022. Rabbids to EVA in 2026. Ubisoft’s catalog is deep. Assassin’s Creed. Splinter Cell. Watch Dogs. Prince of Persia. If Rabbids works, the next license is worth more.
Whether other IP owners follow EVA. Zero Latency has been the go-to for Ubisoft and CD PROJEKT RED and Games Workshop. Sandbox VR has Netflix. EVA now has a Ubisoft property. The market is not one operator with all the IP. It is spreading.
Whether the subscription model scales. If EVA’s monthly-pass conversion holds up, expect other operators to test it. But be careful, subscriptions require real math modeling. Too cheap and you lose your ass. Too expensive and nobody buys.
Free-roam VR is not niche anymore. EVA has moved more than a million guests. Zero Latency has been at it longer. Sandbox VR is running Netflix content in a hundred venues. The category has scale.
What is changing now is the IP layer. Publishers and studios who used to see LBE as a curiosity are licensing their properties. Ubisoft is doing it twice. That is not a test. That is a channel.
For operators, the takeaway is simple. The content pipeline is filling. The hardware is enterprise-grade. The pricing models are getting more sophisticated. The category is doing the work.
What is Rabbids: Color Chaos? It is a free-roam multiplayer VR game developed by EVA under license from Ubisoft. Two teams of up to ten players compete across a 500-square-meter arena to mark the space in their team’s color. Each game runs about 40 minutes.
Where can you play Rabbids: Color Chaos? The game is available at EVA arenas in Germany, including Cologne and Unna, and at other EVA locations worldwide. EVA operates over 70 arenas across several countries.
What headsets does EVA use in its arenas? EVA has used the Pico 4 Ultra Enterprise since September 2025, following a partnership with Pico. Pico is a LEXRA member and a subsidiary of ByteDance.
How much does it cost to play Rabbids: Color Chaos? Prices start at 20 euros per person and vary depending on location, time, and team size. EVA also offers monthly subscription passes starting at 59 euros, cancelable at any time.
How does this fit into the broader trend of IP in location-based VR? Major publishers and studios are increasingly licensing their IP into free-roam VR. Ubisoft previously licensed Far Cry to Zero Latency in 2022. CD PROJEKT RED is working with Zero Latency on Cyberpunk 2077. Sandbox VR is running Netflix’s Stranger Things. Banijay opened Black Mirror at Phi Studio with Univrse. The pattern is a growing catalog of named IP moving into LBE.
