Japan's VR arcade: VR Zone Shinjuku

[NumLock21]

Gaming in Japan just got a lot more awesome as they have open its doors to their VR arcade. Located in Shinjuku, VR Zone Shinjuku, is a place where people can have fun playing games in virtual reality. Some of the games they have are, Height Fear Show, Despair Jungle, The Soul of the Soul, and famous ones like Mario Kart and Dragon Ball. Each of the games uses custom specialized equipment, so players can get the true experience. Such as Mario Kart, you actually get to sit in a racing cockpit, while Despair Jungle, a game where you must out run a dinosaur, puts the player on a thread mill. All of them will be using HTC Vive Business Edition VR headsets, and as for well known game titles, it all depends on Bandai Namco since, they made

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the VR experiences at VR Zone Shinjuku, but we’re not sure if they are available to other VR arcades. The Mario Kart Arcade VR game is an adaptation of Bandai Namco’s Mario Kart license for arcade cabinets. Bandai also holds the distribution license for "Dragon Ball" video games. It’s entirely possible that these games will see wider distribution in the future.

 

http://vrzone-pic.com/

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/dragon-ball-mario-kart-vr,34786.html

 

[Guest]

Price is 800 yen for adults which converts to only $USD7.2 only? That's cheap imo

http://vrzone-pic.com/en/ticket.html

[Rune]

I'm in for DBZvr.

[kasugatei]

I've been at VR zone last year when they were at Odaiba (Tokyo) and it was a nice experience for sure.

 

30 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Price is 800 yen for adults which converts to only $USD7.2 only? That's cheap imo

http://vrzone-pic.com/en/ticket.html

800 yen is just to enter the facility, not per "attraction". For each attraction you need to pay extra. As I noted before, in Odaiba some attractions were more expensive than other. Eg. Yamanote line (train) simulator was much cheaper than eg. save the cat on the plank at 200m high building.

 

Btw the facility is only 20min from my company so I can pay a visit one day after the work ^^

[ARikozuM]

I don't even want to think about getting eaten by a Piranha Plant...

[tlink]

honestly i wouldn't doubt it if this revived arcades from the death. quality VR is too expensive and too much hassle for most people, especially if you want highly customized experiences such as racing cockpits etc. people go kart racing, laser gaming stuff like that and i think this is a good add on to those activity's.

[kasugatei]

Just now, tlink said:

honestly i wouldn't doubt it if this revived arcades from the death. quality VR is too expensive and too much hassle for most people, especially if you want highly customized experiences such as racing cockpits etc. people go kart racing, laser gaming stuff like that and i think this is a good add on to those activity's.

arcades are still the thing in Japan and lots of people are still visiting them. I am talking about non VR ones.

[danielcook1999]

The only VR gaming location i know of in my city charges 30 something Canadian dollars an hour. looking at their hardware i understand the price but still, yikes.

[tlink]

1 hour ago, Niksa said:

arcades are still the thing in Japan and lots of people are still visiting them. I am talking about non VR ones.

yea i know, but i mean as in the rest of the world in europe and north america they are pretty much non existent nowadays.

[NLD1st]

1 hour ago, danielcook1999 said:

The only VR gaming location i know of in my city charges 30 something Canadian dollars an hour. looking at their hardware i understand the price but still, yikes.

as someone mentioned the 800 yen is just to enter the arcade... so thats just over 7$ to enter. so probably an hour of play time will end up the sameish because you still have to pay for each game separate. (they need the same hardware of course just cost of labor is different)

[raphidy]

4 hours ago, Niksa said:

I've been at VR zone last year when they were at Odaiba (Tokyo) and it was a nice experience for sure.

 

800 yen is just to enter the facility, not per "attraction". For each attraction you need to pay extra. As I noted before, in Odaiba some attractions were more expensive than other. Eg. Yamanote line (train) simulator was much cheaper than eg. save the cat on the plank at 200m high building.

 

Btw the facility is only 20min from my company so I can pay a visit one day after the work ^^

How do they keep the peripherals clean,do you know? Had some concerns about that when they said they would have demo booth in BestBuys.

[Jito463]

1 hour ago, raphidy said:

How do they keep the peripherals clean,do you know? Had some concerns about that when they said they would have demo booth in BestBuys.

They......DON'T!  Muahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

 

 

*cough*cough*

 

Sorry, I got a little carried away there.

[Yoinkerman]

6 hours ago, Niksa said:

arcades are still the thing in Japan and lots of people are still visiting them. I am talking about non VR ones.

By arcades you mean money sucking claw machines and pachinko?

(I'm only kind of joking, I had to leave the several I went to because they were blatant money grabs)

[wrath]

So sad that where I live nothing interesting ever happens, so boring....

[BingoFishy]

Seems awesome! I wish they had something like in here in the states (preferably on the east coast where I live)

[Doobeedoo]

Well I want Nervegear haha, and I'm sure I'd get add spammed and hacked
 

[Deletist_Jerk]

I see that it's in Kabukicho...

 

Which means no need for VR Porn lmao

[kasugatei]

18 hours ago, raphidy said:

How do they keep the peripherals clean,do you know? Had some concerns about that when they said they would have demo booth in BestBuys.

They were issuing a disposable mask which acts like barrier between face and VR headset. Here is how it looks like:

They were also using alcohol tissues to wipe anything that people were touching

14 hours ago, Yoinkerman said:

By arcades you mean money sucking claw machines and pachinko?

Usually pachinkos are separate establishments (which are super noisy). By arcades I was thinking about multi story buildings with money sucking claw machines on the first floor and various game machines on other. Eg. http://www.segaarcade.com/

[PlayStation 2]

fucking japan, always has the good shit

[Jito463]

4 minutes ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

f****** japan

Not to be confused with regular Japan.

[CommandMan7]

I'm in Japan for my summer, and this place is only 15 km away from my apartment. Thanks for the heads up, if i go I will post pictures.

[kasugatei]

This one is close to our drinking spot in Shibuya

http://www.adores.jp/vrpark/

 

Haven't been yet so I can not tell whether it is good or not.

[iamdarkyoshi]

M A R I O    K A R T ? ? ?

 

I    N E E D    T H I S

[Yoinkerman]

On 6/14/2017 at 10:11 PM, Niksa said:

They were issuing a disposable mask which acts like barrier between face and VR headset. Here is how it looks like:

They were also using alcohol tissues to wipe anything that people were touching

Usually pachinkos are separate establishments (which are super noisy). By arcades I was thinking about multi story buildings with money sucking claw machines on the first floor and various game machines on other. Eg. http://www.segaarcade.com/

Ah I went to the sega arcade in ikebukuro and it was 4 floors of claw machines, then I left, not checking the other two floors

 

edit:  there were also a lot of gatcha dispensers too

 

And it sucked cause the claw machines had a lot of stuff I would gladly have just paid for.  Some nice dragon quest plush