What are the deadlines for opening a VR room?
When you open a VR room, you are inevitably faced with a major problem: deadlines. Deadlines for finding a room, deadlines for a possible loan, deadlines for finding and testing virtual reality games…. Overview of the different stages and deadlines for opening a VR room.
Why there are delays in opening a VR room
As always when launching an activity, it takes several time positions to open your VR room.
In fact, between the definition of the project, the business plan, the administrative procedures, and above all the choice of equipment and games offered to your customers, it takes several months to meet your various partners and suppliers. !
Methodologically, before opening a VR room and to reduce delays, it is advisable to make a provisional schedule. It can take the form of an Excel table and will help you layout the different positions and how long they may take.
An essential element in planning the deadlines for the opening of your VR room, the provisional calendar will also help you ask yourself the right questions.
According to our experience, the time to open a VR room is between two and three months from the signing of the room. This deadline can of course change depending on the contingencies: delayed work, administrative procedures, material deliveries, the intervention of suppliers, etc.
What are the elements that take time when opening a VR venue?
Opening of a VR venue: Deadlines for the premises
At first, it all depends on the time to find your virtual reality play area. You can turn to a real estate agency specializing in commercial leases. You will then be accompanied in the search for your virtual reality play area.
After having devoted precious time to this research, also count possible work to bring your room up to standard and to create an optimal layout.
You must also take into account the security aspects, bringing your premises up to standard to welcome the public, the passage of a security commission to check that everything is in order ...
Another element that can add delays to the opening of your VR room: the mortgage! Between setting up the file, presenting your project to the banks, negotiations, commissions, and administrative back and forths allow several months of delay before the opening of your virtual reality space. Attention, your room is a centerpiece in the success of your leisure space!
Opening of a VR room: Deadlines in game development
A second important element of delays to open your VR venue: games!
Since your activity is mainly based on virtual reality games, you must choose good quality games. Several options are possible for this: you can contact studios or publishers providing game catalogs (dedicated only to professionals or not) or have one or more tailor-made games developed in partnership with a studio.
The development of a bespoke game takes an average of six months. The development time and its cost increase with the complexity and depth of the game to be developed. The number of people and the know-how of the teams working on this game can also affect the development time.
Wanadev has specialized in the development of digital solutions for over ten years. The Wanadev studio has developed more than fifteen virtual reality video games, recognized by our partners and peers for their qualities.
WanadevStudio also provides its know-how and its catalog of games via the Octopod VR offer. Octopod:Games is a catalog with quality games, suitable for all types of customers, always multiplayer (cooperative or versus), without motion sickness, for box or free-roaming spaces of different types.
We invite you to always test the different experiences and games that you will offer to your customers to form your own opinion. This will also allow you to project yourself and offer the best games to your customers.
Opening of a game room: The delays in communication
An element to also be taken into account in estimating the opening time of your VR room: the promotion and communication of your room. Indeed, do not neglect this essential element of a successful launch and long-lasting operation. It is imperative to make people talk about you, and this even before the opening of your VR room.
To do this, we advise you to bring a few basic elements, after determining your visual identity, to make yourself known when you open your room:
- a website: here too the development of a site can affect the deadlines for the opening of your VR room
- social networks: remember to feed them regularly with content: photos, contests, news ...
- communication media: brochures, flyer, etc. everything is good to talk about you
- promotion/marketing action: organization of an opening night with partners, your relatives, VIPs, meeting with neighboring traders, local politicians, street marketing actions ...
Open game room: Delays in the development of your space
After choosing your location and the most suitable location, you will likely need to do some work before your VR gaming space opens.
We advise you to choose your craftsmen carefully. Also, give preference to craftsmen who are recommended to you by those around you to avoid finding yourself in difficult situations and therefore increasing the delays in opening your RV space.
Our partners in the Waya team, Groupe LDLC, are specialists in interior design and decoration. Working in partnership for several months now, Waya can assist you in the unique layout of your room while respecting our technical recommendations.
Also consider the layout of your room: single-player or multiplayer games. Depending on the options chosen, the spaces of your virtual reality games room will have to be adapted.
To reduce the time before the opening of your VR room, draw precisely the plans of your space and its layout: game room (s), toilets, break room, seating furniture, ideally snack and showcase… You must plan your center. The Kozikaza tool, developed by the Wanadev agency for Adéo, will help you create your 2D / 3D plans very precisely and project yourself into the opening of your VR room.
What delayed impact in a room opening VR
Days go by and you realize that you have already exceeded the deadlines on your provisional calendar? Don't panic, let's study together with the impacts of this delay on your business.
If you've been doing a major redevelopment job, you're more than likely to be late opening your VR room. Here are some golden rules to minimize delays in opening your VR room: always plan to be late! Indeed, it is almost systematic to open after the scheduled date. So do not plan a major deadline too close to the opening date: for example, wait until you get used to the press!
choose your service providers carefully: in addition to your craftsmen for the work, this advice is valid for the studio that develops your video games, the supplier of computer equipment, the company that comes to install the network, etc. plan groups of testers: some relatives will probably accept with pleasure playing mystery shoppers and will therefore help you to “roam” around software, games, logistics, etc.
- always plan to be late! Indeed, it is almost systematic to open after the scheduled date. So do not plan a major deadline too close to the opening date: for example, wait until you get used to the press!
- choose your service providers carefully: in addition to your craftsmen for the work, this advice is valid for the studio that develops your video games, the supplier of computer equipment, the company that comes to install the network, etc.
- plan groups of testers: some relatives will probably accept with pleasure playing mystery shoppers and will therefore help you to “roam” around software, games, logistics, etc.
Conclusion
To reduce additional delays or delays related to the opening of your VR room, we recommend that you be accompanied by experts in each area. Indeed, your project brings together a set of skills and businesses of which you will be the conductor. The advice and recommendations of these experts will be of great help to you in carrying out this wonderful project, which is an entrepreneurial adventure.
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- Why there are delays in opening a VR room
- What are the elements that take time when opening a VR venue?
- Opening of a VR venue: Deadlines for the premises
- Opening of a VR room: Deadlines in game development
- Opening of a game room: The delays in communication
- Open game room: Delays in the development of your space
- What delayed impact in a room opening VR
- Conclusion