Sandbox VR, a fast-growing concatenation of virtual world gaming venues with personage investors, has signed a lease astatine The Boro successful Tysons, Virginia, for its archetypal determination successful the D.C. region.
The 7,500-square-foot determination volition person 4 backstage rooms for virtual world gameplay, each with up to six players. Sandbox uses patented motion-tracking exertion to seizure the movements of a player’s full body. The haptic exertion cogwheel that players deterioration creates a consciousness of interaction done force, vibrations and motions.
The Tysons determination volition unfastened this summer.
The Meridian Group’s The Boro is anchored by Whole Foods Market and has much than 20 restaurants and a ShowPlace ICON Theatre. There are besides residential buildings and bureau buildings, parks, plazas and gardens.
For Meridian, Sandbox VR is simply a bully acceptable for its increasing vicinity astatine The Boro.
“At The Boro, we strive to make an interactive, socially engaged vicinity cultivated by experiential retailers similar Sandbox VR … a unique, breathtaking summation to The Boro’s increasing portfolio of eclectic restaurants, shops and attractions,” said Charlie Schwieger, vice president of plus absorption astatine The Meridian Group.
San Francisco-based Sandbox VR has much than 30 locations. Its investors see Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Kevin Durant and Will Smith. Its astir caller fundraising circular raised much than $37 cardinal from investors.