Largest RM6m Virtual Reality theme park
Published on: Saturday, January 05, 2019
Kota Kinabalu: Virtual Reality (VR) offers endless possibilities, from fun and exciting games to work trainings.VAR LIVE Global Limited chief executive officer Steve Ngu said VR is about "turning impossible to reality."Towards this end, he took a brave step by investing RM6 million to build VAR Live Malaysia, the largest VR theme park in Malaysia.
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"Located in Kuala Lumpur, the theme park which spans across 10,000 square feet is set to change the gaming world," he said."It promises 13 VR attractions and 14 game rooms, from shooting games and haunting rooms to finding historical remains and ancient treasures."Currently it is offering seven games for a start."He disclosed that they developed their own games to attract the interest of all types of people, irrespective of age and gender.
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"VR games will last forever. The people love the heights, adventure, space, dinosaurs, and you can develop games on any topics," he said. VAR Live (M) Sdn Bhd executive director YL Lee said that they are planning to produce between three and four new games every year to attract new audience at the outlet.
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"Our local research team gets overwhelming response over the games at the outlet during a pilot study here," he said. Lee said that they are also targeting to launch one of the biggest VR e-sports in March this year. "We want to turn certain sporting activities to virtual experience." He said, they also planned to meet officials from the Tourism, Arts and Culture Ministry to work out on how to register this outlet as one of the tourism attraction spots in the country. "It can be presented as one of the place suitable for family orientation activity," said Lee. In addition, Ngu said that they are also planning to involve in VR training next year relating to military, police, hospital, fire brigade, education and other services as required by their clients. "We work closely with our research team in Taiwan to customise services according to their requirement. "If the police need to train what to do if five people attack one person at the same time, it can be done in the interactive computer-generated experience taking place within a simulated environment." Ngu said that they have trained a department's officers in Hong Kong to face conditions such as riots. Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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