We here at GOVR are all about making it mindbogglingly simple for everybody to enjoy mindblowing VR. Pioneering in location-based virtual reality entertainment since 2017, we’ve brought tailor-built VR experiences to over 20 venues to date.
Here’s our story, in a nutshell
We ran the first Brighton Virtual Reality Gaming Night in early 2017
GOVR started out in early 2017 as the Brighton Virtual Reality Gaming Night. Once a month, we’d carry our personal computers and two VR headsets to a local pub and invite curious pub-goers, gamers and developers to join us for a night of drinks and VR gaming.
We open GOVR cafe to Brighton and the world in spring 2019
After running countless pop up events in over 18 venues across Brighton, and making lots of lovely friends along the way, we finally found a home for GOVR above Presuming Ed’s Coffee House.
We close everything down in 2021 due to pandemic disruption
Like many businesses hit by the pandemic, we had to close our three VR attractions in 2021, including our original GOVR café in Brighton.
What’s next?
We’re not sure yet, but we bet it’ll be exciting!
We launched GOVR in the summer of 2017
Encouraged by the people who enjoyed our events and the greater than expected demand for affordable and inclusive VR, we decided to setup GOVR in the summer of 2017. Over the next two years, we would build GOVR bit by bit - headset by headset - and crystalise the three rules that define GOVR: make it easy, make it affordable, make it social.
We open two VR rooms at Phileas Foggs World of Adventures in 2020
Building on the success of GOVR cafe, we opened two new rooms at Sussex’s number 1 voted family attraction, Phileas Foggs World of Adventures.
We return with a new attraction at O.W.E.N.S. in 2022
Just when it seemed like it was curtain call for GOVR, a new opportunity comes a-knocking. Teaming up again with the creators of Phileas Foggs World of Adventures, we open an all-new wild west themed VR attraction at their new indoor adventure park, O.W.E.N.S, in the heart of Hastings.