Time to play! New virtual reality gaming coming to Northern Virginia - WUSA9.com

TYSONS, Va. — Celebrity-backed Sandbox VR is coming to Tysons Virginia, according to institution officials and  The Meridian Group.   The virtual world gaming venue volition beryllium housed astatine The Boro and is slated to unfastened successful summertime of 2023. 

Sandbox VR offers an immersive acquisition that makes players consciousness similar they are successful a movie. The caller determination volition diagnostic 4 backstage rooms for virtual world gameplay called “holodecks." Groups of up to six players tin play.

Players are fixed 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 another. Company representatives said Sandbox VR uses patented motion-tracking exertion to seizure the movements of a player’s full body.  

“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.

Sandbox VR has signed a lease for 7,508 quadrate feet astatine 1656 Silver Hill Drive, Tysons, Virginia.

Sandbox VR officials said the institution besides plans to unfastened a determination successful Virginia Beach, Virginia. 

The institution boasts personage backers including Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Kevin Durant, and Will Smith.