{"id":32039,"date":"2018-07-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/mario_kart_vr_will_launch_in_the_uk_this_summer"},"modified":"2018-07-11T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T14:00:00","slug":"mario-kart-vr-will-launch-in-the-uk-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/11\/mario-kart-vr-will-launch-in-the-uk-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Kart VR Will Launch In The UK This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/mario_kart_vr_will_launch_in_the_uk_this_summer\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/mario_kart_vr_will_launch_in_the_uk_this_summer\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"mariokartvr.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/mario_kart_vr_will_launch_in_the_uk_this_summer\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/mario_kart_vr_will_launch_in_the_uk_this_summer\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"mariokartvr.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Following a\u00a0successful launch at Bandai Namco&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/07\/video_gaze_in_wonder_at_the_vr_mario_kart_youll_probably_never_get_to_play\">VR ZONE arcade in Shinjuku<\/a>, Tokyo, the\u00a0<strong>Mario Kart Arcade GP VR<\/strong> experience is headed to the UK this summer.<\/p>\n<p>This is a multiplayer VR offering that allows four players at a time to hop into specially designed \u2018Mario Karts\u2019, before racing through the iconic Mushroom Kingdom as either\u00a0Mario, Luigi, Peach, or Yoshi.\u00a0Running from the HTC Vive VR system,\u00a0the game is said to feature &#8220;industry-leading graphics&#8221; and will allow players to reach up and grab classic items like banana skins to launch at their opponents.<\/p>\n<p>The experience will be launching this August at VR ZONE Portal London located within Hollywood Bowl at The O2, before eventually being rolled out to further VR ZONE Portal locations at Hollywood Bowl centres in Tunbridge Wells and Leeds. You&#8217;ll be able to book your place in advance, with details expected to be shared at the official <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodbowl.co.uk\/vr\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see it in action, this video shared by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCKSAmkKSYlhDzHnbjzIFBsg\">Nintendeiros<\/a>\u00a0on YouTube should give you a pretty good idea of what it&#8217;s all about. (Lots of excited screaming contained within).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"resize\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hr2OZtYqFZg?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\" type=\"text\/html\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>If you live in the UK will you be giving this a go? Do you imagine we&#8217;ll see a Mario Kart VR experience released commercially\u00a0in the future? Let us know with a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a\u00a0successful launch at Bandai Namco&#8217;s VR ZONE arcade in Shinjuku, Tokyo, the\u00a0Mario Kart Arcade GP VR experience is headed to the UK this summer. This is a multiplayer VR offering that allows four players at a time to hop into specially designed \u2018Mario Karts\u2019, before racing through the iconic Mushroom Kingdom as either\u00a0Mario, Luigi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}