An Irish company backed by Michael O’Rourke will bring the Zero Latency’s multiplayer, free-roam virtual reality experience to Dublin, Ireland, in March and London, UK, when it has secured premises. Irish company Virtual Reality Gaming has received an investment of more than €1m from former Setanta chief executive Michael O’Rourke, and has secured the franchising rights for Zero Latency in Ireland and London. In Zero Latency’s games, players are equipped with VR headsets, headphones, microphones, military-styled backpacks and a replica shooting weapon. They move freely around an empty warehouse: but using virtual reality technology what they see and hear are hyper-realistic, mind-blowing, virtually-generated worlds. All their movements are replicated in game and players can see each other as full-motion avatars. This allows players to warn, strategies and banter with each other. Ronan Cunningham, who heads up VRG, is reported to have come across Zero Latency while on honeymoon in Tokyo, Japan. Cunningham has secured a premises in Sandyford in south Dublin. VRG hopes to attract 25,000 players in its first year of operation. (2018/12/24)