Our Story

 

ARENAVERSE was born out of the team at EscapeVR. While working on highly immersive content, new technological advances led us to new ideas of creating cutting edge experiences that let us resolve critical pains in the industry:

  1. Reduce the complexities of operating VR

  2. Increase throughput while keeping customer satisfaction high

  3. Increase comfort of VR with wireless roaming and lighter-weight headsets

Resolving these issues led to the development of ARENAVERSE; a solution that’s easy for audiences to understand, appreciate, and experience.

TEAMWORK makes the

DREAM WORK

Introducing our team of industry All-Stars

Simon Chu

Simon has been working with location based VR experiences at his company Escape VR for over three years. Starting with creating high quality content for the escape room industry, the team at Escape VR has successfully deployed their turn-key VR solution to over 30 locations in 5 countries.

He works very much as a technical CEO, understanding software development’s technical challenges and hurdles at a higher level.

Before his endeavors in VR, Simon has been and is still the CEO of StuckPixel, a mobile app company. As CEO, Simon has helped his team capture the #1 app ranking on Apple's mobile appstore, then proceeded to push three more apps into the top 10. StuckPixel has generated 50 million app downloads with hundreds of thousands of daily active users.

Nick Risher

Nick was President of US Operations for Hologate, a VR multiplayer location-based distribution platform. He has helped secure IP for them such as Angry Birds. It has become the world’s largest location-based entertainment system in VR with over 300 locations.

He previously was VP of Acquisitions for En2go International. A tech company with Steve Wozniak as the board director which set out to be the first online VOD company to stream HD with a state-of-the-art compression software. He partnered with studios and 200 other independent distribution companies around the world creating a vast collection of content for the public beta launch.

Javier Castaneda

Javier previously spent years building and developing unique outdoor VR Lounges that can operate in complete darkness. Owned and operated Voltz VR Lounge.

Javier has worked as a Senior Structural Engineer and Set Designer for all the major movie studios. Worked at Origin LLC and has extensive knowledge in ArtiosCAD, Retail, Point of Purchase, Virtual Reality systems integration, Business Management, QMS certified (Quality Management Systems) and is ISO 9001:2015 certified.

He has worked as a Senior Structural Engineer and as Director Of Operations for 20 years in Southern California. High level professional presence with deep understanding of business operations and functions ranging from accounting principles to staff management.