The story behind Victoria VR
Victoria VR is an exploration and social sandbox game. It’s an immersive world where you can build whatever you want, and bring it to life with your friends, colleagues, and strangers alike.
We are working in Unreal Engine to create a place where you can play, explore and have fun. Inhabitants and visitors will have limitless options for creativity; to build, explore and play. You can also play games with friends, start a business, and even create an empire.
We’re just about to launch our much anticipated Alpha, and we can’t wait. It’s made us think a lot about where we have come from, and how we have come such a long way. We wanted to share a little of that story with you.
Victoria VR was founded by Ondřej Dobruský and Adam Bém in 2018. They started working on the project in a tiny office (20 m² — you can see it in this video). They worked every day and night, with the original aim of making something like that shown in the film ‘Ready Player One’ a reality. Lofty aims — but ones that we see both Ondřej and Adam are pushing harder and harder towards, as the project grows.
Ondřej Dobruský, CEO and Co-Founder of Victoria VR, explains, “I have been planning this project practically my whole life. I wanted to create a game that is not just a game — to think further, remove constraints, and focus on the unlimited possibilities that can be created. I wanted Victoria VR to combine the best parts of revolutionary games, the craziest thoughts and ideas from literature and movies, and our own game mechanics, algorithmic solutions, and ideas embedded in realistic virtual reality. Victoria VR is my life’s work.”
While the concept of the metaverse has been around for many decades, it’s only recently that technology has advanced to the point where it can become the reality that Ondřej and Adam envisage. The mission was always to create something unprecedented. A new virtual world/life — Virtual Reality — a parallel universe, even, where you can do absolutely anything. Now the tech can match the vision, we are producing the level of work we have always expected of ourselves.
Indeed, our vision is to create a place where anyone can create absolutely anything. A place that will be decentralized and owned directly by its users. And we really mean that. We are building a world that will exist without us. Thanks to the algorithmic system for creating quests, it will be able to live its own life even without us, its creators.
Since its start in 2018, the team has grown to over 80 in-house developers, including team members with a rich history in the gaming industry, and expertise including proven successes at big-name companies. This experience has allowed us to remain focused on moving storytelling forward by implementing cutting-edge technology, and bringing Ondřej and Adam’s vision to life. Our metaverse — a realistic and progressive place that we expect to become even more special once it gets into the hands of its inhabitants and visitors — is now entering a new stage.
We are now opening our metaverse to the public with our Alpha Access program. This will give a select group of people early access to our metaverse. This step, for us, isn’t as trivial as wanting those players/users to simply play around in a ‘sandbox’ — although there’s definitely that opportunity. We want our Alpha users to help us take the next step on the journey, and help shape Victoria VR into something even more impressive.
Victoria VR is a game that lets you explore, innovate, and connect. If you’re looking for a more traditional form of gaming, that’s here, but it’s so much more than that. Victoria VR has a keen focus on exploration — not just exploring the ‘world’ of the game, but exploring you, your connections, and your own creativity within the metaverse. This is important, because as advanced a metaverse as we are building Victoria VR to be, we understand that, ultimately, it’s about the human connections created within it. It’s the inhabitants and visitors will make Victoria VR what we have always intended.
So what’s next for Victoria VR? The pride we have looking back at where we have come from is nothing compared to our excitement for the challenges and reveals we have ahead. While we’re no strangers to working hard, we still have a lot of work ahead of us. But for now, we have our most significant milestone so far — the launch of our Alpha. This is a massive moment for us, which we have been working towards for so long. We can’t wait to see what the metaverse looks like once it’s in the hands of its inhabitants.
Victoria VR is at the forefront of the metaverse revolution, and we can’t wait to see what the future holds. We hope you’ll join us on this journey.
About Victoria VR — https://www.victoriavr.com
Victoria VR is a revolutionary Blockchain-based Virtual Reality Metaverse. Powered by Unreal Engine and featuring realistic, highly detailed graphics, it combines a massively-multiplayer-online role-playing game (MMORPG) with a unique Social Experience Playground.
Like never before, players will be immersed in a virtual reality world where they get to live their digital life. Whether you want to Play games, Develop your digital real estate (VR Land), Own a business, Work up or Get some entertainment, your imagination is the only limitation.
