EP116 Bob Cooney's Virtual Reality Deep Dive - Ben Davenport of VRsenal (Part 2)

Ben Davenport is a co-founder and CEO of VRsenal. Ben provides a unique combination of forward-facing innovation grounded in practical business sensibilities that is helping to make LBVR a commercially viable reality today. VRsenal designed and manufactured the first fully automated Virtual Arcade cabinet. This automated cabinet allows the customers to just slide their game card and the system takes care of the rest. This includes providing sanitation and headset fit instructions, walking them through how to play the game and more. It means that no attendants need to be present, the cabinet does all the job. Their first title is the global Beat Saber. In today’s episode, Bob will be talking with Ben about their fully automated Virtual Arcade cabinet, how it works and how they came up with this idea and much more. DISCLAIMER: The audio at times was illegible in the recording, so we edited out some of the original webinar.  Sorry about that. Let’s dive in! WHAT YOU’LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE: Benefits of shrinking to one VR station Using mixed reality for attracting more people Ben on Beat Saber How much VRsenal charge per play in Beat Saber How their automated cabinet works How long the VR experience lasts What demographics their Virtual Arcade appeals to How they made their controllers tethered How they solved the cable problem in their VR How they improved their hardware to eliminate breaking of equipment Why it's important to have all your equipment tethered VRsenal website: https://www.vrsenal.com/ A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making by Dave Snowden: https://hbr.org/2007/11/a-leaders-framework-for-decision-making Listen to PART 1 here: https://anchor.fm/bobcooney-vrdeepdive/episodes/EP115-Bob-Cooneys-Virtual-Reality-Deep-Dive---Ben-Davenport-of-VRsenal-Part-1-ek8348