Sandbox VR - Birmingham School Trip

Why book 'Sandbox VR - Birmingham' with Sandbox VR for School Trips and Educational Visits?

Sandbox VR is the world’s most advanced virtual reality venue on the planet.

Located in the Grand Central Shopping Centre in the heart of Birmingham, it features 6 virtual reality holodecks where you can transport yourselves into the most immersive gaming experience imaginable.

Each of our nine experiences available combines full-body motion capture and high quality haptic feedback to provide unprecedented realism, impossible with home VR systems or other location-based VR venues. Groups of six per room can transport themselves into their action movie, freely roaming the VR environment as they enter exclusive virtual worlds and rely on each other to succeed. Unique, active, and social, there's truly something for everyone. From saving the world from aliens in Amber Sky 2088, slaying a dragon in Seekers of the Shard, facing the trials of Netflix's Squid Game: Virtuals, or fighting off the zombie hoard in our Deadwood Saga.

Current School Trip Offer

EXCLUSIVE 2025 SCHOOL TRIP PRICING! - £20 per pupil!

*pricing only valid during term time (Birmingham)

valid until: November 2025

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What activities are available during group visits?

Our activities promote strong team-building, problem-solving, and decision-making skills in an out-of-this-world environment that is both physically and mentally stimulating.

Which Curriculum Subjects do you cater for?

Physical Education School Trip

Our adrenaline fulled high energy experiences are sure to get the heart pumping and left feeling both externally mentally and physically stimulated. Trust me everyone will be sleeping on the bus back to school after stepping out of our amazing worlds.

Explorers School Trip

Exploring done different. Enter one of our nine unique realities a truly unique, active, allowing for real time problem solving, decision making and teamwork opportunity in another reality. something totally out of this world , that pupils and teachers won't be able to stop talking about.

Team Building School Trip

From working as a team to save the planet from an Alien Invasion, to using strategy to be victorious in Netflix's Squid Game, our out of this world experiences are incredible team building opportunities to allow students to make their own decisions in immersive virtual environments sure to get the blood pumping and be talk of the school for weeks to come!

Computing School Trip Click to expand

Game Design Information and Communications Technology Robotics

Discover the immersive world of Virtual Reality! Each of our nine experiences available combines state of the art computing technology, including full-body motion capture and high quality haptic feedback to provide unprecedented realism, impossible with home VR systems or other location-based VR venues. All of our experience as designed by our Game Design team, with every experience being exclusive to Sandbox VR venues.

Unique, active, and social, there's truly something for everyone. From saving the world from aliens in Amber Sky 2088, slaying a dragon in Seekers of the Shard, facing the trials of Netflix's Squid Game: Virtuals, or fighting off the zombie hoard in our Deadwood Saga.

What size groups do you cater for?

Minimum 6 pupils
Maximum 250 pupils

Do you offer on-site classroom facilities?

No class room facilities on site.

Is there first aid on site?

There will be at least one First Aider on site.

Do you offer access for visitors with disabilities?

The venue is wheelchair accessible.

Do you cater for visitors with Special Educational Needs (SEN)?

Our experiences are suitable for the majority SEN pupils. Each SEN is different person to person. Please contact us before booking and we will provide our personal recommendation on if our experiences are suitable. Our experiences are adaptable to cater to specific needs such as removing the need haptic feedback jackets so you dont have them reacting to things happening in the game. As well as this we can reduce the sound of the headphones to prevent hyper audio stimulation.

Due to the nature of virtual reality, we do not recommend people with photosensitivity participating in our activity.

Who are Sandbox VR?

Sandbox VR is a virtual reality (VR) company that offers immersive, in-person, social VR experiences. Players wear cutting edge technology in the form of motion capture devices & haptic suits to interact with each other and their virtual environments.
What to expect:

- Motion capture: Players wear full-body motion capture devices to transform their real bodies into virtual bodies
- Haptic suits: Players wear haptic suits to feel what their virtual characters feel
- Exclusive worlds: Players enter virtual worlds created by EA, Sony, and Ubisoft
- Social experiences: Players can high-five their friends and work together to succeed in games

Sandbox VR is also home to the UK's only robotic bartender. Using hydraulics and pneumatic robotic arms to serving delicious cocktails and mocktails for our guests, using the highest quality brands and products you would find in your typical city centre bar!

Our venue is a real glimpse into the future of entertainment with multiple new experiences launching every year, getting bigger & better with every new title and pushing the boundaries of what is possible with virtual reality.