Good business idea....or just a silly goat?

Growan

Growan

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I took the kids to a little Comic Con today. They liked the hall full of stuff we didn't collect, the grown men in space suits, the dangerous young ladies in manga outfits....but what they liked most was the VR. A fiver got them 5 minutes on Beat Sabre....and they loved it.

So that got me thinking. Mostly I thought "I think I'd like to have a virtual reality gaming PC", but I also thought "I wonder if there's any money in this....?"

Tell me, do you think if a box van turned up on your driveway all kitted out inside like a gamers wet dream, neon, surround sound, projector screen and an Oculous Rift toting gaming PC..... you'd chuck the nice goat who bought it there a couple of sheckels for his troubles?

Kids parties, stag do's, cocaine fueled weekend while the wife is away for work.... it's a half decent plan? No?

Like this....only in a box van.....and sexier...plus goat.vr-room.jpg
 
vostok

vostok

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Hummmmmm..mm

you are offering a service to middle class goof offs ...ok

but what will screw you is the content and the copyright crap that goes with agents and their wares

extreme caution can you pay the piracy fines ..?

VR and their capitalist wares will get cheaper the theory goes

goodluck
 
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Ryante55

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You would need to turn a profit in less than a year tech gets outdated really fast but if you could do a half million in sales the first year it would probably be worth it.
 
tyler.durden

tyler.durden

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Growan said:
I took the kids to a little Comic Con today. They liked the hall full of stuff we didn't collect, the grown men in space suits, the dangerous young ladies in manga outfits....but what they liked most was the VR. A fiver got them 5 minutes on Beat Sabre....and they loved it.

So that got me thinking. Mostly I thought "I think I'd like to have a virtual reality gaming PC", but I also thought "I wonder if there's any money in this....?"

Tell me, do you think if a box van turned up on your driveway all kitted out inside like a gamers wet dream, neon, surround sound, projector screen and an Oculous Rift toting gaming PC..... you'd chuck the nice goat who bought it there a couple of sheckels for his troubles?

Kids parties, stag do's, cocaine fueled weekend while the wife is away for work.... it's a half decent plan? No?

Like this....only in a box van.....and sexier...plus goat.View attachment 4211952
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It was fun in the 90s, why not now?


 
Singlemalt

Singlemalt

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How many kids could play the VR games at once? Say for a regular paddy kid, the B-day may have 4-6 friends, a van is doable. However, for rich spoiled slags a party may have 10 or more. How do you keep the kids not playing occupied? You could have the VR game "The Troubles", then have a paint ball game of the same name. You'll have mini IRAs, Sinn Feins, and Brits, etc. Half the kids play it in VR, the others are gunning themselves down, then switch. I like it
 
Growan

Growan

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Good considerations here.....some respinses on no particular order....

The van itself I recon I could buy for 3-4k, and convert myself for another 2k. (It wouldnt be quite as sexy as the couple of pictures I posted probably, but I've been building motorhomes so this is just a variation on that)

The equipment....the people who had the VR stuff at Comic Con had 3 PCs and Microsoft headsets. The PCs were the door of thing you could buy in a shop for £6-700 quid apparently, the headsets £350ish.
I'd probably budget for a £1200 gaming PC off the shelf (you can barely justify building a rig yourself with the price of components, the bulk buying power they have makes them competitive) and £800 Vive, £400 surround sound system, £500projector etc, same shop, under warranty...easy to return if issues . developed. Probably 4k in gear, the PC probably needing hardware upgrades in 18 months, maybe replacing in 2-3 years.

It would make sense to drop another few hundred quid on those mini retro gaming units, snes, mega drive etc, or a few rasberry pi systems with their own monitors so the kids not playing the main system would be entertained . Maybe another grand would cover that?

I think it would make sense to be able to set the systems up in the clients house, hall, bar etc. Not everyone wants to hang out in a van all day, no matter how cool a space it is. You could probably charge the same amount per hour/day for either set up.

Perhaps the biggest concern then as Vostok says is licensing... presumably it's possible to get a license if some sort to profit from the use of the software, the setup at comic con must have had some sort of protection in place, they were in plain view, an easy target if doing anything sueable. DEFINITELY worth looking into that side of things.

And Malty, The Troubles sounds like it might be a hit. If I could get a ''Beat the Priest" (no, you dirty boy, more like "whack a rat") game I think it would be popular too.

So....around 10k in set up, though I could test the viability of renting VR in people's homes for closer to 3k and have a gaming rig to sell on if it if all turned out to be a bust...

What have I missed/overlooked?
 
evergreengardener

evergreengardener

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Sounds good. As far as the legal part, yu could do that no problem if you look into it and get a lawyer. Like you said Comic-Con does. Remember the days of blockbuster you could rent games to play ect. Also you would charge more if yu had to set up in the persons house, the van is set up full time park and play style to set it all up in a house would be extra labor
 
vostok

vostok

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Growan said:
Good considerations here.....some respinses on no particular order....

The van itself I recon I could buy for 3-4k, and convert myself for another 2k. (It wouldnt be quite as sexy as the couple of pictures I posted probably, but I've been building motorhomes so this is just a variation on that)

The equipment....the people who had the VR stuff at Comic Con had 3 PCs and Microsoft headsets. The PCs were the door of thing you could buy in a shop for £6-700 quid apparently, the headsets £350ish.
I'd probably budget for a £1200 gaming PC off the shelf (you can barely justify building a rig yourself with the price of components, the bulk buying power they have makes them competitive) and £800 Vive, £400 surround sound system, £500projector etc, same shop, under warranty...easy to return if issues . developed. Probably 4k in gear, the PC probably needing hardware upgrades in 18 months, maybe replacing in 2-3 years.

It would make sense to drop another few hundred quid on those mini retro gaming units, snes, mega drive etc, or a few rasberry pi systems with their own monitors so the kids not playing the main system would be entertained . Maybe another grand would cover that?

I think it would make sense to be able to set the systems up in the clients house, hall, bar etc. Not everyone wants to hang out in a van all day, no matter how cool a space it is. You could probably charge the same amount per hour/day for either set up.

Perhaps the biggest concern then as Vostok says is licensing... presumably it's possible to get a license if some sort to profit from the use of the software, the setup at comic con must have had some sort of protection in place, they were in plain view, an easy target if doing anything sueable. DEFINITELY worth looking into that side of things.

And Malty, The Troubles sounds like it might be a hit. If I could get a ''Beat the Priest" (no, you dirty boy, more like "whack a rat") game I think it would be popular too.

So....around 10k in set up, though I could test the viability of renting VR in people's homes for closer to 3k and have a gaming rig to sell on if it if all turned out to be a bust...

What have I missed/overlooked?
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if your are in the UK/Europe then a night club operation of the Spanish coast

with this as a side issue for the bargain holiday makers

would be a cash cow

but anything with booze attached is ...too

maybe Florida in the amercas the same..?
 
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