{"id":101152,"date":"2016-08-15T08:16:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T06:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101152"},"modified":"2017-04-28T09:44:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T07:44:37","slug":"south-africa-is-getting-one-of-the-worlds-first-vr-arcades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/101152-south-africa-is-getting-one-of-the-worlds-first-vr-arcades","title":{"rendered":"South Africa is getting one of the world&#8217;s first VR-arcades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The V&amp;A Waterfront in Cape Town will be the site of one of the world&#8217;s first permanent VR-arcades, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nag.co.za\/2016\/08\/12\/hey-kids-a-virtual-reality-arcade-has-opened-in-cape-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NAG Online<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>VRcade will officially open its doors on the <strong>weekend of 27 and 28 August<\/strong>, allowing gamers to get hands-on time with the newest VR-headsets in an old-school arcade environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirtual Reality (VR) is about to explode globally, but to have a really world class VR experience you need expensive equipment and lots of space. Most South Africans can\u2019t afford either,\u201d says Zach Joubert, MD at VRCade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to make VR more accessible to people, giving them a top-notch experience without the investment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So what do you actually do at VRcade?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"first-child\">Multiplayer VR gaming and VR experiences. Networked VR rigs let gamers enter the same virtual environment together. Currently, there are four rigs with plans to scale these up.<\/li>\n<li>Watch friends play VR from the player\u2019s perspective. Each rig is connected to a TV enabling people hanging out at the VRCade to watch what\u2019s happening from the player\u2019s perspective.<\/li>\n<li class=\"last-child\">Mixed-reality green-screening: even more compelling than watching from the player\u2019s perspective is merging VR with the real world using green screens. In about two weeks VRCade will allow audience members to watch their friends inside of the VR environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For those who want to get in on the fun early, VRcade will also be hosting a pop-up arcade at\u00a0Workshop17\u2019s events space at the Waterfront for the next two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on the store and what to expect from VRcade, you can find their official site <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vrarcade.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to build a custom PC gaming console for under R7,500\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/100868-how-to-build-a-custom-pc-gaming-console-for-under-r7500.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to build a custom PC gaming console for under R7,500<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Why Microsoft\u2019s new Beam streaming service is better than Twitch\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/101124-why-microsofts-new-beam-streaming-service-is-better-than-twitch.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why Microsoft\u2019s new Beam streaming service is better than Twitch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to What actually happens to your brain when you pull an all-nighter\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/101110-what-actually-happens-to-your-brain-when-you-pull-an-all-nighter.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">What actually happens to your brain when you pull an all-nighter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The V&#038;A Waterfront in Cape Town will be the site of one of the world&#8217;s first permanent VR-arcades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":106397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8585],"tags":[721,1147,2163,6477,21184],"class_list":["post-101152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-gadgets","tag-arcade","tag-cape-town","tag-south-africa","tag-vr","tag-world-first"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101158,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101152\/revisions\/101158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}