RELOAD Bar & Games is partnerering with VR Bits to bring the most advanced virtual reality (VR) technology demonstration ever shown in the ACT on Thursday April 2.

Mark Schramm is the principal of VR Bits and Canberra’s highest profile VR developer. He has recently returned from GDC 2015 in San Francisco, which is the world’s foremost VR industry convention. Mark will be demonstrating his new game ‘Night Time Terror’ on Oculus Rift, Samsung’s VR Gear and Google Cardboard. Other highlights of the evening will include:

• “Body/Mind/Change”, a VR experience based the work of acclaimed film director David Cronenberg.
• “VRChat”, a ground-breaking social application billed as the best real-time social experience available and second only to real-life face-to-face meetings.
• Exclusive content from Blunt Instrument in their 2d platformer in VR game, SuperMegaMega and an exclusive version of a Dungeon Crawler called “Crystal Rift” by Psytec Games
• “Alien Isolation”, an Oculus Rift horror game that is so scary we are running a competition and awarding a prize to whoever can make it the farthest through the game without removing their headset!

Reload Bar & Games is a new venue specialising in social video games, eSport & new technology. They are located at 38 Northbourne Avenue, Canberra. The event will commence at 8pm and will have a $5 entry fee.

[Photo: British television presenter Rachel Riley shows a virtual-reality headset called Gear VR during an unpacked event of Samsung ahead of the consumer electronic fair IFA in Berlin, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)]