A big year of VR Regatta is over, with huge news to come! 💨⛵
Hello there, digital sailors!
2017 is sailing into the sunset, bringing to an end our biggest year so far of appearances and demos for VR Regatta. We’ve had a very eventful twelve months, and 2018 is already shaping up to be even busier!
Here is just a sampling of the things we got up to during 2017:
- ⛵ MarineVerse was officially incorporated as a company in Australia.
- ⛵ We demoed VR Regatta several times in our hometown of Melbourne, including exhibiting at PauseFest, an event dedicated to innovative technology and exciting startups, and giving racing fans a taste of sailing at the Australian Grand Prix in cooperation with Australian Sailing. We also showed it at the Melbourne Boat Show, the Royal Brighton Yacht Club, and more.
- ⛵ We travelled around the world to show off our game, including demonstrating it to experienced sailors at the Singapore Yacht Show and partnering with M&G team to deliver a virtual sailing experience at a conference in Davos, Switzerland.
- ⛵ It gave us a great sense of validation to be awarded a production grant from Film Victoria to help us develop our game by hiring some talented new people.
- ⛵ An astonishing 4,000 virtual sailors in over 80 countries played VR Regatta in 2017.
- ⛵ We’re not quite done yet! VR Regatta will be showcase at the Melbourne stopover of the Volvo Ocean Race on 28 December.
We already have big plans for 2018, mainly the official launch of the game in the first quarter of 2018. Stay tuned for our release date! After our great experience this year, we will also be returning to PauseFest 2018 to exhibit again.
Our sincere thanks go out to everyone who has played our game, given us feedback, reported a bug, or done anything else to help make VR Regatta: The Sailing Game even better.
It’s been an incredibly challenging and exhausting year with a lot of hard work and long hours of travelling, but it’s worth it to work on a project that we love so much. You can keep up with the latest by following us on Twitter or checking in on our blog.
What are you looking forward to in 2018?
Greg on behalf MarineVerse Team
https://www.marineverse.com/
