Chaos Karts: We try the brand new & unique virtual-reality go-karting in Manchester

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A completely unique go-karting experience has recently launched in Manchester.  Chaos Karts is a brand-new virtual-reality activity which will have friends and family going head to head to see who can score the most points and walk away victorious.  Located in Spinningfields just next door to the Science and Industry Museum, the immersive experience is another addition to Manchester's thriving entertainment scene.  Race your friends on several themed tracks, picking up bombs and various weapons to try and sabotage the other players, and make sure you pick up gems to build your score and win the game.

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00:00 It's totally unique. There's nothing out there like this at the moment. So I think if you're

00:05 into immersive experiences and if you're into gaming and if you're into fun and into team

00:11 building and just having a laugh with your mates or your family, then I really do think

00:16 that you would absolutely love this.

00:19 A completely unique go-karting experience has recently launched in Manchester. Chaos

00:24 Karts is a brand new virtual reality activity which will have friends and family going

00:29 head to head to see who can score the most points and walk away victorious.

00:34 Located in spinning fields just next door to the Science and Industry Museum, the immersive

00:39 experience is another addition to Manchester's thriving entertainment scene.

00:44 Race your friends on several themed tracks, picking up bombs and various weapons to try

00:48 and sabotage the other players. And make sure you pick up gems to build your score and win

00:53 the game.

00:54 The customer drives a real go-kart around a real space, but all of the tracks and all

01:03 the environment is digitally projected.

01:05 The unique part of what Chaos Karts offers is that you get to engage with the other drivers.

01:12 You can pick up power-ups, you can pick up weapons, you can shoot the other drivers,

01:17 you get points for shooting at them and hitting them, and you can pick up gems which also

01:22 give you points. So it's unlike traditional karting which tends to be focused on speed

01:28 and getting around the track as fast as possible, ours is much more geared up towards collecting

01:35 points. So it's much more of a game rather than a race.

01:40 We knew that we'd hit upon something special. Generally I think people are like, "Oh,

01:44 do I have to wear a VR headset?" No. It's like, "Oh, do I have to, can I actually

01:49 shoot other people?" Yes. And it takes them a few minutes to go, "Wow, I'm actually

01:55 immersed in this environment that you've created, but I'm interacting with the other

01:59 players in a way that I didn't think I'd be able to." So a lot of people are coming

02:03 away saying, "Wow, that was brilliant."

02:05 When you enter into the building, we wanted people to start to feel part of our world.

02:11 So we've tried to keep it somewhere in the realm of 1980s video arcade, lots of neons,

02:20 some old school video arcade games you could play. There's a little Instagram moment,

02:24 a cart you can sit in. There are six tracks in total. We've tried to come up with tracks

02:30 that are visually quite different. So without giving too much away, we've got one set in

02:36 a desert. We've got one set in a beach environment and one set in a galaxy far away. Because

02:43 it's all digitally projected, we can control what the look and feel of each track is. And

02:49 we've already got a roadmap of development to produce new, different, interesting tracks.

02:54 And that's the beauty of the system. It's because it's all digital, you can create new

02:58 content. Really, there is no limit to what we can, the environments that we can produce.

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