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by SyneRyder 3484 days ago
Someone ran a VR arcade of 2 HTC Vive units at my local suburban shopping center during the last school holidays. They charged $15 per game, and while there weren't long queues, there was lots of interest. So I sat at a cafe next door and started counting players - they were doing somewhere between $200 - $300 an hour in revenue, and that was during a slightly off-peak time too.

They disappeared after a couple of weeks (it was only ever a popup shop), so I don't know if interest trailed off or not. (I never got around to playing it myself either.) But considering many of the VR games sell for just $5, it made me feel the money right now is in running the VR arcade, not developing the software for it!