Latest news

Paragraphs from the Parasphere and beyond

Can VR be used to cultivate connection with real world places?

Will the development of virtual worlds impact how we perceive, enjoy, and look after real-world places? As a lover of nature, and planet Earth, there is an instinctive part of me, that walks cautiously, even as a VR producer myself. Donning virtual reality (VR) goggles and shutting out our senses from what is immediately in front of us, could, in a very literal sense, make us more “blinkard”. There is an unnaturalness to it, a total potential disconnection with reality. If, for example, you can quite literally ‘fly’ in the virtual world, what would encourage you instead to simply ‘take a stroll’ in the real world? If everything can be recreated digitally, what drive will there be, to look after it physically? Is it a possible future, that people will not travel in the real world at all? There is a potential, futuristic, dystopian scenario, that writers and film makers have already begun to hypothetically explore, that the virtual wo...

22 September 2023

ParadropVR is on a mission, now open at the National Infantry Museum in the

The virtual reality flying experience ParadropVR has parachuted into the National Infantry Museum, in Columbus, Georgia, USA and it is already on a mission. The installation is (quite literally!) fly

10 November 2022

Introducing the Neon Nights Games Series

Ever wondered what it would be like to fly at night? Well you can now, as our new game series Neon Nights has just launched at IAAPA Europe 2022.

10 October 2022

Don’t miss flying ParadropVR at IAAPA Europe!

The award-winning virtual reality flying experience Paradrop VR, created by Frontgrid, is now installed and operating in 11 countries worldwide and counting.

15 September 2022

ParadropVR opens at the RAF Museum Midlands, UK – a futuristic addition

Now, when visitors go to the RAF Museum Midlands, they can feel what it is like to fly just like the The Falcons, the RAF’s military parachute display team.

29 August 2022