T-Rex Safari: VR Adventure Arcade Game

Raw Thrills built T-Rex Safari: VR Adventure as an unattended cabinet, and every hardware decision in it follows from that. The VR headsets are armored and live with the seat instead of being handed out and collected. Players interact with their bare hands: sensors read the hands whenever they come up above the seat bar, and the hands appear in the game. There is no controller to distribute, no headset to fit for each rider, and no loose hardware to track at close. That is what separates this cabinet from VR attractions that need a staff member standing beside them for every session.

The ride seats up to two players at once, and a second player can join after the game has already started. Four levels carry riders through named environments including the sky on a Quetzalcoatlus, the deep ocean with a Mosasaurus, and the jungle alongside a T-Rex, with compressed-air seat motion plus wind and sound effects layered under the visuals. Installed, the cabinet stands 113 inches tall, 55 inches wide, and 123 inches deep and weighs 1,694 lb, and it ships on three separate pallets. Power runs through two inlets, 10A each at 120V/60Hz.

Check the depth before the width. At 123 inches, the installed cabinet reaches 10 feet 3 inches front to back on a 55-inch width, so it plans out like a row of uprights rather than a single machine, roughly 47 square feet of floor before any queue or rider clearance. Installed height is 113 inches, or 9 feet 5 inches. A room with 8-foot ceilings will not take this cabinet at all, and even a 10-foot ceiling leaves only inches above it, which matters when a technician needs to reach the top of the structure.

Receiving is a three-piece job, not a one-piece job. The main cabinet pallet weighs 811 lb, the seat pallet 478 lb, and the misc. pallet 405 lb, and those three figures add up to the 1,694 lb unit weight. No single lift exceeds 811 lb, so an ordinary pallet jack handles each pallet, but the delivery arrives as three separate items that all have to be checked in and moved. The main cabinet pallet also stands 90 inches tall, above the clear height of a standard 80-inch door frame, so measure the route in from a dock or roll-up door rather than assuming an interior doorway will work. Its 52-by-40-inch pallet footprint is narrower than the assembled 55-inch cabinet, which helps once the route is confirmed.

On electrical, two inlets is the detail operators miss. The cabinet needs both fed, at 10A each on 120V/60Hz. That is 20A total, which fully commits a single 20-amp branch circuit with nothing left over for a neighboring machine, a vacuum, or a change machine on the same run. On 230V/50Hz service the figures drop to 5A per inlet and 10A total. Confirm receptacle placement against the 123-inch depth as well, since the inlets sit on a cabinet that occupies more than ten feet of wall or aisle.

The comparison that decides most VR purchases is attended versus unattended. A staffed VR attraction consumes labor for every ride: fitting the headset, handing over controllers, wiping down, collecting hardware. T-Rex Safari removes all of that by using armored headsets that stay at the seat and motion-sensing hand tracking instead of handheld inputs. Weigh that against the content depth you are buying, four levels with scripted interactive scenes in each, and against the two-player capacity with mid-game entry, which is what determines riders per hour on a busy afternoon.