Montpellier: A mixed reality room, between laser game and video game - 20 Minutes

In Montpellier, a room with an innovative concept opened in the deserted shopping center of the Parc à Ballons, near Aubes. Developed by the start-up The Bigger inside, The Cluster offers an amazing experience, halfway between the laser game and virtual reality, developed by a former talent from Ubisoft, a computer engineer and an electronic engineer .

"It's a mixed reality arena, a bit like a laser game maze, with partitions, but the big difference is that the players move around with a virtual reality headset over their eyes, and are equipped with more than twenty sensors on the body, explains Benjamin Rolland, one of the creators of the concept. They can move naturally and freely in the play area, in which there are real walls, merged with their representations in the video game. This is why we speak of mixed reality: we bring elements of reality into the virtual world. "

"The immersion is very, very good"

Impossible, thus, to eat a full face wall, unless you do it on purpose: it is visible in the game. Once equipped with high-tech armor, players are immersed in the cyberfuturistic universe of Protocol 223 , The software developed by the Montpellier company, where it is about fighting, destroying targets or collecting objects.

"At first, we observe ourselves a bit, then we get to the heart of the matter, and the immersion is very, very good," said Cyril, high-tech blogger on the Braindegeek.com site, who tested this amazing concept. . The last five minutes, we are fully, we begin to sweat. When you are really in the game, you completely forget that you are with other real players, and it happens that we hit them, without doing it on purpose. "

The objective, for The Bigger inside, incubated at the Cap Omega nursery, is to develop its concept in France and abroad. And to launch a sports league, taking advantage of the development of e-sport. "We are between e-sport, because it is truly a competitive video game, and sport, because it is a fairly physical activity", continues the co-creator. To be tested with others, from 13 years old. And without age limit! "We had a lady who 70 years old, who had fun, she had died laughing all along! "Smiles Benjamin Rolland.

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