US-based virtual reality startup Sandbox VR has teamed up with CBS Interactive to launch a new Star Trek virtual reality experience this autumn.
Star Trek: Discovery Away Mission will allow up to six friends to enter the world of the series, complete with phasers and tricoders. It will first be available at existing Sandbox VR locations in Hong Kong, the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, and come to new locations in New York, Austin, San Diego and Chicago soon after.
The San Franciscan company has done away with all physical cues, so while many sites still rely on props for customers to interact with they are often more of a cumbrance. This allows Sandbox to run multiple experiences at each location and effectively function a bit more like a movie theatre that may show different films back-to-back in the same theatre.
