{"id":39553,"date":"2018-08-10T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/video_heres_what_its_like_to_play_mario_kart_in_vr"},"modified":"2018-08-10T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T10:45:00","slug":"video-heres-what-its-like-to-play-mario-kart-in-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/10\/video-heres-what-its-like-to-play-mario-kart-in-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Here&#8217;s What It&#8217;s Like To Play Mario Kart In VR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fd170a3dcbec1\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fd170a3dcbec1\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/video_heres_what_its_like_to_play_mario_kart_in_vr\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Mario Kart VR<\/strong> has been a thing in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/07\/video_gaze_in_wonder_at_the_vr_mario_kart_youll_probably_never_get_to_play\">Japan<\/a> for a while now, but the concept has only recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/mario_kart_vr_will_launch_in_the_uk_this_summer\">made its way to the UK,<\/a> with Namco Bandai setting up a unit at Hollywood Bowl inside the O2 in London this month.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCQOaotrW2Sr2d1riejGmD4w\">Simon Davidian<\/a>\u00a0paid a visit and shares his thoughts in the video above. As you can see, it looks like jolly good fun, even if it is a little limited in scope &#8211; you can&#8217;t select your character, for example, and are assigned one depending on which unit you pick.<\/p>\n<p>Weapons are physically thrown using your hands, which naturally makes the whole thing feel a little bit different to the &#8216;normal&#8217; Mario Kart &#8211;\u00a0Davidian likens the experience to a &#8216;tech demo&#8217;, which seems a fair conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>The other catch is that it costs \u00a37.99 per person to play, or \u00a324.99 for a group of four people. That&#8217;s a lot of cash, but then again this is a pretty unique proposition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let us know if you&#8217;ll be making the trip to the O2 to play it by posting a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Mario Kart VR has been a thing in Japan for a while now, but the concept has only recently made its way to the UK, with Namco Bandai setting up a unit at Hollywood Bowl inside the O2 in London this month. Simon Davidian\u00a0paid a visit and shares his thoughts in the video [&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-39553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39553","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=39553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}