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SEGA Increases Investment in Location-Based VR

kevinw729
Honored Visionary
SEGA Entertainment and virtual reality (VR) solutions provider StarVR
today announced its collaboration to bring StarVR arcade experiences to
existing SEGA Game Center locations throughout Japan. StarVR will work
with SEGA Entertainment to roll out its VR arcade experiences across the
country, at three SEGA arcade locations by March 2018 and at more than
ten locations by the end of the year.



https://www.vrfocus.com/2017/12/sega-increases-investment-in-location-based-vr/
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959
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kevinw729
Honored Visionary
I know your loving the poor translation from the previous article, but there is not a "WWI" sim. The C&VG article miss translated "NekMech" - that's all!

The two images are of the (t/l) 'NekMech' machine and the (b/r) 'VR-1' machine - the VR-1 being the most successful of the SEGA VR systems with installations of the attraction in JP, AU and UK.



https://www.vrfocus.com/2017/07/the-virtual-arena-the-virtual-theme-park-part-1/
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

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cybereality
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kevinw729 said:



They had a roller-coaster ride like that at orientation on my freshmen year of college. It was in the late 90's, so the previous wave of VR was still alive, and they even had Jaron Lanier do a speech and I got to meet him briefly. Fun times.
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kevinw729
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cybereality said:
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They had a roller-coaster ride like that at orientation on my freshmen year of college. It was in the late 90's, so the previous wave of VR was still alive, and they even had Jaron Lanier do a speech and I got to meet him briefly. Fun times.



Yes, but the coaster was AR not VR.



Know Jaron from the VPL days - he has a new book out about his time in the early Phase Two period of VR that is worth a read if you are interested. We also have the second book out Next Year.
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

cybereality
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Yeah, I just got Lanier's latest on Audible. Will listen to soon.
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