By Gabe Carey
The hopeful “next big thing” in virtual reality (VR) has an origin story almost ripped from the annals of scrappy beginnings of gaming.
Two years ago, a young Christian Bouw left his home in Raleigh, North Carolina for Washington D.C. with nothing but a duffle bag and a car that would soon become his house. For his first month living in the US capitol, if you ran into Bouw, he may have asked to sleep on your couch or use your appliances, but he wasn’t your average freeloader.
When he wasn’t sleeping, Bouw was drafting up plans for a fixed cost, fixed timeline product development company called Notion Theory. Little did he know that, within two weeks of launch, Bouw would secure $20,000 (about £15,279, AU$26,289) for his business.
Today, you can walk into the offices of Notion Theory and shake hands with one of its seven employees who may even show you a demo or two of one of the 43 projects they’ve built and released. Or, if you’re willing to shell out the $15 per 30 minutes of play, you can experience the first virtual reality arcade to inhabit the East Coast, NotionVR.
Bringing back the arcade (slowly)
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Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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