Aaru ready for the future?: New VR cafe offers exhilarating entertainment options for Tulsans - tulsapeople.com

Aaru (pronounced “ah-roo”) is the archetypal virtual world arcade successful Tulsa, turning fantasies into real-life experiences for friends, household and awkward archetypal dates to enactment successful arsenic they flirt with the boundaries of technological innovation.

Opening this past October astatine 7 N. Cheyenne Ave., Aaru offers highly immersive games and acquisition simulations — arsenic good arsenic a cafe, barroom and crippled improvement halfway — to some its members and the public.  

The squad down Aaru has partnered with tech companies similar W5 Omni to make the archetypal publically accessible Omnideck successful the world. Typically utilized lone successful world probe centers and by governments for subject and nationalist work simulation training, Aaru’s Omnideck allows guests to locomotion 360-degrees successful a VR headset portion ne'er straying excessively acold from the treadmill’s designated center. While you move, the in-game quality exemplary is directed by the aforesaid question arsenic you research assorted integer environments. 

Shai Kaiser, Aaru CEO and operator, has lived successful Tulsa since property 5 and graduated from Riverfield Country Day School. During Aaru’s development, helium spent clip distant from Tulsa but realized determination was nary amended spot to found a business. 

“One of the coolest things we tin bash here, for the students who thought tech was ne'er an option, is marque that imagination realistic for them done accessible top-tier VR and each the enactment we tin springiness to the Tulsa gaming industry,” helium says.

In the arcade, Aaru’s lightweight Vive Focus 3 headsets link wirelessly done dedicated 6GHz networks to an array of beefy gaming PCs for a crisp, high-quality solution display. Additionally, the modular VR experiences are held successful six 8-by-10-foot padded play areas that tin fastener from wrong and clasp individualized clime control, ensuring users tin support chill portion being immersed ($50/45 minutes; $40 for members). 

Alongside the virtual gaming scene, Aaru’s cafe and barroom offers sips and airy snacks portion besides welcoming extracurricular food. A hep upstairs lounge is the cleanable spot to chill, work, survey oregon play tabletop games with friends. Fun aboriginal happenings volition see azygous oregon ongoing Dungeons and

Dragons campaigns, cosplay competitions and esports livestreams.

For much accusation sojourn aaru.games, oregon cheque retired Aaru’s Facebook to enactment up to day with peculiar events and experiences.