{"id":22267,"date":"2023-11-22T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=22267"},"modified":"2023-11-21T11:38:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:38:55","slug":"vortex-vr-arcade-bringing-virtual-fun-to-the-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/22\/vortex-vr-arcade-bringing-virtual-fun-to-the-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Vortex VR Arcade bringing virtual fun to the Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagara-gazette.com\/news\/night_and_day\/vortex-vr-arcade-bringing-virtual-fun-to-the-falls\/article_6f5de12c-6dea-11ee-980f-efb398705576.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Niagara Gazette<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The One Niagara Welcome Center is always looking to bring in tourists and now they\u2019re taking a high-tech approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe looked into developing an arcade,\u201d said Joe Grenga, son of operating partner Paul Grenga. \u201cWe wanted it to be state-of-the-art with VR.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plenty of research and soft openings have given Niagara Falls the Vortex VR Arcade, located on the third floor at 360 Rainbow Blvd. It plans on hosting a ribbon-cutting and grand opening on Sunday, when it hosts a Halloween party from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The two flagship attractions are the Omni Arena and a VR dark ride. The Omni Arena has four people playing eight different VR games on omni-directional treadmills. The dark ride, as Grenga put it, is a seven-dimension experience with 3D glasses, seats moving in every direction, and even high winds going blowing participants.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara Gazette: The One Niagara Welcome Center is always looking to bring in tourists and now they\u2019re taking a high-tech approach. \u201cWe looked into developing an arcade,\u201d said Joe Grenga, son of operating partner Paul Grenga. \u201cWe wanted it to be state-of-the-art with VR.\u201d Plenty of research and soft openings have given Niagara Falls&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,29,54],"tags":[13527,561,13525,13524,13528,13523,13526],"class_list":["post-22267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-developments","category-niagara-falls-new-york","tag-joe-grenga","tag-niagara-gazette","tag-omni-arena","tag-one-niagara-welcome-centre","tag-paul-grenga","tag-vortex-vr-arcade","tag-vr-dark-ride"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22268,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22267\/revisions\/22268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}