The Boro Tysons Announces Sandbox VR as Newest Retail Tenant - TysonsToday - TysonsToday

The World’s Most Immersive Virtual Reality Experience is Coming to The Boro Summer 2023

The Boro, the premier destination for luxury municipality surviving successful the bosom of Northern Virginia, contiguous announces its welcoming of Sandbox VR, a full-body virtual world amusement experience, to the vicinity this summer. Sandbox VR has signed a lease for 7,508 quadrate feet astatine 1656 Silver Hill Drive, Tysons, Virginia, solidifying The Boro arsenic a determination hub for dynamic, innovative, family-friendly experiences.  

“The Meridian Group (TMG) is thrilled to invited Sandbox VR, the astir established virtual world relation successful the space, to its caller location astatine The Boro,” said Charlie Schwieger, Vice President of Asset Management astatine TMG. “At The Boro, we strive to make an interactive, socially engaged vicinity cultivated by experiential retailers similar Sandbox VR. With a conception that promotes assemblage and squad gathering done technological innovation, Sandbox VR makes a unique, breathtaking summation to The Boro’s increasing portfolio of eclectic restaurants, shops and attractions.” 

Sandbox VR uses patented motion-tracking exertion to seizure the movements of a player’s full body. This, combined with their custom, high-quality haptic system, provides players with unprecedented realism and implicit immersion. Experiences are designed to marque players consciousness similar they person been transported into their ain enactment movie. The afloat immersive experiences are heart-pounding and thrilling – players volition hide they’re successful a game. 

“Tysons is 1 of the largest areas for bureau and retail successful the country. It’s adjacent successful proximity to Washington, DC with casual entree by car oregon Metro,” says David Friedman, VP of Global Real Estate for Sandbox VR. “The Boro is simply a newer mixed usage manner and amusement halfway that serves the country with large restaurants, theaters and Whole Foods.”

The Boro’s Sandbox VR determination volition diagnostic 4 backstage rooms for virtual world gameplay called “holodecks,” successful which groups of up to six players volition research virtual worlds and trust connected each different to win successful games designed to beryllium societal experiences. Together with friends, family, oregon co-workers, players are equipped with a VR headset, a haptic vest, a backpack and question sensors connected their wrists and ankles. This exertion allows players to spot and physically interact with 1 different portion feeling similar they are successful the mediate of an enactment movie, with the heightened emotions that travel from not conscionable watching a film, but from really becoming the stars of the action.

Sandbox VR is the latest retailer to articulation The Boro’s divers postulation of dining, buying and attractions. In May, The Boro announced plans to present an further 160,000 quadrate feet of retail abstraction arsenic portion of its Phase II expansion, connected apical of the existing 255,000 quadrate feet of retail abstraction successful Phase I. Future improvement besides includes 610,000 quadrate feet of caller residences, open-air greenish abstraction for recreation and assemblage activation, arsenic good arsenic improved walkability, convenience and accessibility. Phase II of The Boro is presently nether operation with important completion successful 2025. 

In summation to its increasing portfolio of experiential retailers and attractions, The Boro facilitates community-building done its signature programming. In 2022, The Boro welcomed astir 7,000 guests to 8 events themed astir seasonal moments astatine Boro Park, the outdoor gathering abstraction astatine the halfway of the neighborhood. The year-round programming included some family- and dog-friendly events, escaped fittingness classes, chess tournaments, an authentic Oktoberfest, wintertime holiday-themed activations and more. 

“There are a assortment of breathtaking attractions that visitors of each ages tin find uniquely astatine The Boro,” said Schwieger. “As the vicinity expands, we look guardant to delivering much amusive and invaluable experiences and programming for guests to bask clip aft time.” 

Sandbox VR astatine The Boro volition unfastened this summer, and booking volition beryllium disposable at www.sandboxvr.com. More accusation astir The Boro is disposable at www.theborotysons.com. 

About The Boro

The Boro is simply a premier, multi-phase, transit-oriented improvement that brings unneurotic a vibrant assemblage successful the bosom of Northern Virginia. Steps from the Greensboro and Spring Hill Metro Stations on the caller Silver Line, adjacent to Route 7, Westpark and Greensboro Drives, this mixed-use residential, retail, entertainment, and bureau vicinity captures the tone of a existent downtown acquisition successful Tysons. The vicinity is distinguished by its accessible streetscapes, pedestrian-friendly roadways, nationalist greenish spaces, and curated, locally sourced first-class entertainment, dining, and shopping. For much accusation connected The Boro, visit www.theborotysons.com.

About Sandbox VR 

Sandbox VR is the world’s premier destination for premium location-based virtual world games. The institution has created the world’s astir immersive full-body VR level and boasts games you can’t play anyplace else. Sandbox VR is present operating successful implicit 30 locations and expanding rapidly. Sandbox VR is headquartered successful San Francisco, California with an bureau successful Hong Kong. Sandbox VR’s latest circular has raised implicit $37 cardinal from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund, Gobi Partners, and Craft. Individual investors see Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Kevin Durant and Will Smith.