Overview
- The experience is now live at Sandbox VR locations globally, including the Pointe Orlando venue, with bookings available.
- Players become psychically enhanced test subjects who enter Hawkins Lab and the Upside Down to battle franchise creatures using a telekinetic “catalyst” controller.
- Matthew Modine reprises his role as Dr. Brenner, guiding players through training sequences within the narrative setup.
- Sessions use full-body motion tracking, vibrating haptic vests, headsets with voice chat, and private free-roam holodecks for groups of up to six.
- Early hands-on reports praise immersion but note intermittent desynchronization, slight voice-chat delay, constrained movement space, and substantial physical exertion, as Sandbox VR frames the title as its third Netflix tie-in ahead of season five’s rollout on November 26, December 25, and December 31.