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FIGHTING FOR
THE FUTURE
How Vicon technology helps teams save the world in
Navrtar & VR Arcade’s free-roaming virtual reality experiences.
Origin by Vicon powers
Navrtar and VR Arcade as
they create the future of locationbased
entertainment in the virtual
reality industry.
For decades virtual reality has been
promising users full immersion in digital
worlds, but it’s only now – thanks in no small
part to the advancement of motion-tracking
technology such as Origin by Vicon – that
the potential is being realized.
Navrtar is the UK’s first free-roaming virtual
reality and bar, designed to offer users
a social, location-based experience that
plunges them into new worlds rife with
zombies, aliens and criminals. Worlds that
users are able to explore and interact with
freely thanks to Origin by Vicon.
Co-founders Nik Parmar and Saaj Kanani
saw the potential for VR to finally go
mainstream when affordable hardware such
as PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive
began to hit the market, but those headsets
were all initially limited to the confines of
the users’ homes. They explored London
to find an operator offering a deeper VR
experience but found the capital lacking.
In the UK VR was still, says Saaj, a
technology “which had incredible amounts
of potential, but with limitations of space,
wires and the inability to interact with
other players.”
“Really the aspect of it is we wanted the
social experience. We find that people will
want to do stuff together,” says Nik.
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