Sandbox VR provides immersive zombie-hunting fun this Halloween season - LA Daily News

There’s nary shortage of haunted houses popping up during the Halloween season wherever fearfulness fans are chased and frightened by each sorts of creatures of the night.

But, there’s a caller action-horror experience coming to a mates of Southern California cities this twelvemonth for those who aren’t looking to tally distant from the undead, but alternatively travel look to look with zombies portion donning tactical cogwheel and an arsenal of weapons successful an effort to prevention the satellite … a virtual world.

“You and your friends are dropped into Deadwood Valley, which has been overrun by zombie hoards and you person a mission, which is to prevention a idiosyncratic and his woman who person the antibodies to prevention humanity,” said Josh Cole, elder vice president of selling for Sandbox VR. The institution offers virtual world gaming experiences — similar its latest, Deadwood Valley — and allows guests to play wrong those virtual worlds by strapping each sorts of method cogwheel connected players and placing them wrong ample rooms arsenic their avatars leap into action.

Players cogwheel up with question sensor instrumentality and goggles astatine Sandbox VR, which offers virtual world games including the horror-themed Deadwood Valley. (Photo courtesy Sandbox VR)

“You’re protecting this idiosyncratic arsenic you’re being attacked connected each sides from beneath and supra by zombies,” Cole explained.

It’s similar a crippled of Laser Tag, but wrong an elaborately detailed, virtual world. Each subordinate tin spot the others wrong the crippled and they tin speech to and interact with 1 another, arsenic good arsenic physically consciousness the elements of conflict arsenic they combat their mode done the zombie apocalypse.

How it Works

Founded successful 2016, Sandbox VR operates 26 locations successful 5 countries, with section crippled rooms located successful Woodland Hills and Cerritos. The players strap connected a VR headset and goggles, arsenic good arsenic question sensors connected their wrists and ankles. They’ll besides deterioration a haptic vest, which creates vibrations to adhd to the realistic consciousness of the interactive world.

“So erstwhile a zombie comes successful and possibly hits you, you consciousness similar you’re being hit,” Cole said, describing 1 of the functions of the vest.

Then players get to take from an assortment of rifles, shotguns and different weapons earlier they’re enactment successful a country for battle. These spaces are afloat of cameras that seizure the player’s afloat assemblage movements, which means each gamers tin spot each other’s avatars intelligibly successful virtual space.

“Once the lights spell disconnected and the VR comes on, you’re successful a full different world,” Cole said. “It’s afloat immersive. You spot and consciousness everything and it’s happening each astir you. You’re being attacked from above, from below, from each around. So it’s genuinely 360 degrees of enactment that you’re successful the mediate of.”

The Games

Once wrong Deadwood Valley players spell done the municipality destroying zombies, astatine 1 constituent adjacent jumping successful the backmost of a motortruck arsenic zombies effort to ascent connected and attack. Eventually, players extremity up successful a agrarian country wherever they’re faced with the do-or-die enactment of either redeeming the idiosyncratic oregon ending humanity.

“You’re the leader of your ain movie oregon video game,” Cole said. “You’re determining the result with your friends.”

Deadwood Valley isn’t the lone satellite that players tin conquer, arsenic determination are a full of six astir 30-minute agelong archetypal games offered astatine Sandbox VR. Those see Deadwood Mansion, the archetypal mentation of Deadwood Valley, which takes spot wrong of a location alternatively than a town. There’s besides an alien escapade called Amber Sky 2088, wherever players support Earth against an alien swarm.

For the Trekkies, there’s Star Trek: Discovery, a crippled successful which the players are Starfleet officers successful the U.S.S. Discovery investigating a distress awesome from an alien world. Gamers are equipped with phasers, a tricorder and you’ll adjacent basal connected a transporter pad and get beamed to your mission.

Though the games are for players of each ages, Cole recommends the Curse of Davy Jones for younger kids. That crippled uses much cartoon-style visuals and players combat oversea creatures with swords and pirate pistols arsenic they hunt for Davy Jones’ treasure.

And portion each the games are geared towards cooperative squad play, players tin besides combat each different successful UFL, the Unbound Fighting League, a subordinate versus subordinate crippled utilizing weapons similar tridents, a laser sword and a shield.

Cole said that 1 doesn’t person to beryllium a pro gamer to bash good successful these virtual experiences.

“When you travel to our venue, it’s truthful casual due to the fact that your assemblage is your controller, you’re holding something, you’re moving and you’re kicking,” helium said.

Sandbox VR

Where: The Village astatine Westfield Topanga, 6316 Topanga Canyon Blvd., #1120, Woodland Hills and Los Cerritos Center, 454 Los Cerritos Center, Suite E13, Cerritos.

Hours: Various clip slots disposable 11:20 a.m.-10:55 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays and noon-11:35 p.m. Fridays-Sundays successful Woodland Hills; 11 a.m.-10:15 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays and 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Fridays-Sundays successful Cerritos.

Cost: $50 per idiosyncratic Mondays-Thursdays; $55 per idiosyncratic Fridays-Sundays.

More information: 818-963-8003 for Woodland Hills and 562-888-8753 for Cerritos oregon sandboxvr.com.