Getting to know virtual reality (VR) is quite a hassle - you need to carve out at least half an hour or an hour for the session itself, get to the VR club, pay about (minimum!) $10-20... This is understandable: the simplest VR club needs space and investments of no less than $10,000 in personnel, so it is aimed at working "wholesale" for hours.
But is it possible to introduce people to VR "retail", minute by minute, in crowded places, like street musicians introduce people to music? Accordingly, ("retail" and "with delivery"!), the price per minute of viewing can be significantly higher than the "club" price. The latter is easy to google and makes up a pretty decent $20-$30 for half an hour/hour
I offer a business in the form of a "mini-club VR" (MCVR) based on an autonomous helmet and my 3D drone videos - an attraction "Feel like a giant", giving the viewer the sensations of Gulliver in Lilliput while watching calming and relaxing videos of various showplaces, presented in 3D as huge toys. Short, 30 sec - 1 min videos naturally suggest filling small periods with unusual pleasant sensations.
In this way, you can create jobs priced at $500-700 and sell people VR experience "retail", for 3-5-10 minutes in a variety of places: at a train station, in a shopping center, on the street or even on a tram... Or on-site - to a children's party, a corporate event or someone's birthday... You don't need to carry much with you: the helmet itself, a disinfectant with wipes and a folding chair (which also serves as a stand for posters: "attractive" (see photo below) and "instructions" for viewing (even lower). I can help by providing image files in the required language for printing and laminating on-site, since I can't really imagine attracting clients without them. Unless you have children of the right age and eager to try themselves in business among themselves, they easily establish contacts among their peers. But how do the tax authorities and the public in different countries view this, I would like to know.
Having a helmet like Quest-2, 3 or 3S and a suitable place with good Internet, you can try this idea in practice, since for over a year now I have been regularly posting videos in 1280x720 resolution for each eye on:
- DeoVR,
- YouTube
- creator.oculus.com
This corresponds to the apparent "diagonal" of the screen in the helmet of a hundred inches without strong pixelation.
That is, a fairly simple and inexpensive helmet gives an impressive effect: trees in the form of tiny bonsai with people smaller than matches, surrounded by familiar or new "toy", detailed volumetric landscapes.
When and if things go well, under the franchise, I will be able to supply videos in 1920x1080 resolution for work without Wi-Fi, autonomously.
There are already more than 150 of them, for a couple of hours of continuous viewing and even more.
Unfortunately, in my Kharkiv people are not up to virtual reality now, and in Germany, where I found myself without German, a marketing experiment is almost impossible. By the way, I will be glad to have a German-speaking companion living near Mannheim and willing to participate in testing. In case of success, I guarantee noticeable discounts and preferences on my part, we will agree.
While I am getting permission from the authorities to show my videos for free and collect feedback, they must take place in several public places in the city. I have sent them the requested information with clarifications, so there is no guarantee that the experiment will start soon.
Likewise, there is no guarantee that his or her results will be replicable elsewhere: you apparently have the opportunity to start a new source of income near your home (or right there, or inside your business, such as a massage or solarium, billiards, cafe or hotel ...). This pen, if successful and taking into account local conditions, can obviously be scaled up by hiring people and filling key positions.
For his part, he can offer support in the form of 3D videos of landmarks in your area (they can be "ordered" by commenting on any video on youtube.com/@ixyt), files for printing pictures in your language or posting in the schedule and addresses of your MCR on the page ixyt.info/ru/COUNTRY/CITY.
Thus, I invite owners of Oculus Quest-2, 3 or 3S helmets to reproduce my experiment in their city and share its result with me. And all this can be done by turning on manual control (without controllers), switching the helmet to "travel mode" and using my videos on deovr.com/channel/anatolazarenko, since the player of this hosting allows you to "scroll" through uninteresting videos without leaving and consistently wandering among the imposed YouTube videos or digging into the Creator.oculus.com collection. In addition to images with instructions for using the helmet, users can watch a short video with possible operations at mria.top/3D/ixyt.mp4.