TULSA, Okla. — “Golden Gloves VR” is a fully licensed virtual reality boxing simulator developed by the engine room in downtown Tulsa.
The Engine Room’s owner, Aaron Sloan, said the simulator benefits from being developed next to a full boxing gym.
“The physics and the capabilities of our system of the boxing game, I would almost lean more towards calling it a boxing simulator,” said Sloan. “It’s more exact of what you would face if you were in the ring. But you don’t have to go through any pain.”
Sloan hopes “Golden Gloves VR” can become a platform for e-game tournaments. After players qualify through the simulator, Sloan said, “We’ll invite you to come to nationals live. the two players would box off against each other in virtual reality, and then we would pick a national E-Golden Glove Champion.”
It looks like boxing games have come long way since “Mike Tyson’s Punch Out”, and that’s thanks to people like the team Sloan hired from around the country.
“We brought in people from Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Pennsylvania … relocated them full-time here. And then we had some Tulsa University interns help us over the summertime,” said Sloan.
Start-ups like this are putting Tulsa on the map of what is being called the Silicon Prairie.
Pre-release for “Golden Gloves VR” begins Friday on the Meta Quest Store Early Access section.
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