The real world can bore you to tears. And video games grow stale after so much button-mashing. There seems to be no escape from this monotonous life.

We’re changing that.

VisionVI makes its debut in NYC as the city’s first Virtual Reality Arcade: 16 Game Areas (VIBox) set up with dedicated VR equipment, including a space for developers (VI Labs) to bring their visions to life. We are scheduled to open in Early 2017.

Players constantly search for ways to be more integrated with the games they play. VisionVI utilizes virtual reality to make people believe they’re actually roaming inside a video game.

With VisionVI, we are certain that experiencing VR will be available to everyone—just like it was supposed to be.

UPDATE: All Backers will receive a VisionVI branded Google cardboard, vr box for your mobile phone

What is VR?

Virtual reality (VR for short) in short, is a first-person simulation of a reality created by a computer.

Elaboration, please?

Virtual reality programmers have constructed a full, 3D, life-sized terrain—let’s say it’s on an exotic blue planet called Xiladon—and this is all coded onto a computer.

You can’t see this terrain by normal means—you put on a special kind of headset that is fixed over your ears and eyes, through which you are now able to look straight ahead, as you find yourself staring at Xiladon's famous ice moon hanging in the starry night sky.

You hear the sound of rushing wind blasting into your ears. You survey the entire inhospitable landscape around you by simply turning your head, because the headset synchronizes to your head movements.

You see nothing from the world you were just in a few moments ago.

Suddenly, you’re no longer in New York—you’re on planet Xiladon, pal.

Why VisionVI

Virtual Reality has all the hype for mass adoption, but there's the matter of the cost. Not to mention that the cost would limit buying any more than one VR set for multiplayer.

Here’s our solution: we have partnered up with HTC VIVE and created the VIBox: a 21 square foot playspace. There will be 16 VIBoxes that can be booked hourly. With so many VIBoxes, multiplayer is a thing.

We also want to take care of the hygiene issues in sharing VR headsets. Here, we give strict instruction to replace the inside of the headset after every session and sterilize the headset itself overnight.

“Bring back the arcade!” they said. “The arcade is back, and this time it's VR!” we said.

Boasting full 5.1 channel audio, the latest computers and VR headsets, VisionVI is ready to provide you the greatest VR experiences you’ll ever have.

VI Labs

The neat thing about VisionVI also serving as a developer space is that it provides developers the data on user preferences. Now they have a better idea of what players actually want.

VisionVI is more than an arcade—it’s a sandbox for developers and a venue for the virtual reality community to come together.

This space is also designed to accommodate VR conferences, events and discussions.