Sparkling VR hosts meetings, study days, workshops, team building and company evenings for groups of 10 to 200 people. Its main space seats up to 70 people facing the screen for a plenary session and takes up to 80 in mixed layouts. The venue is a 400 m² loft on the first floor of 6 rue de la Pépinière, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, one minute on foot from Gare Saint-Lazare.
Seminars and company events
The loft is sold for half-day and full-day study sessions, from a morning session with breakfast to a full day running from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with breakfast, lunch, breaks and three hours of virtual reality. Each meeting format includes an HD projector, a 3 by 3 meter screen, wireless microphones and a studio sound system. The furniture is movable, so the room can be set for round tables, a plenary, collaborative workshops or brainstorming groups. Meeting formats can also be booked without the VR activity.
For team building, the whole loft is privatized for 20 to 200 people. Formats run in the afternoon, as an early-evening aperitif or as a full evening. The activity side includes access to more than 20 team games, 16 VR stations, 2 dynamic simulators that reproduce a plane, a bobsleigh or a sled ride, and 2 VR escape games. A team of hosts supervises players throughout. Return screens let those waiting follow the action. Games take 2 to 10 players in the same simulation.
Private hire is possible on any day and at any time, outside the public opening hours.
Rooms and capacities
The loft is one 400 m² floor with windows and a glass roof, exposed stone walls, club armchairs and sofas, a bar and a dance floor. Two areas hold the VR booths, arranged like rings around the room. Published figures: up to 70 seated theater style facing the screen, up to 80 in other layouts, private spaces for 10 to 70, and 20 to 200 for full-venue team events.
Catering
The bar serves breakfast, lunch, aperitifs and dinner. Meeting lunches are built around a fresh pizza bar. Cocktail dinners can include Iberian ham, smoked salmon, foie gras, tuna rolls, a pizza or truffle risotto bar and cream puffs, with a selected list of wines, Champagne and house cocktails such as a rum punch with vanilla and a Moscow Mule. Soft drinks can be taken as a flat package. A DJ can be added to the evening formats.
History and setting
The loft is designed as a mix of art gallery, club and high-tech venue. Its walls carry original paintings, comic book plates and illustrations by artists including Frédéric Pillot, Manchu, Didier Graffet and Kim Jung Gi, sourced from Paris and New York galleries. The venue says that more than 1,000 companies have held events there.
Getting there
Gare Saint-Lazare is one minute away on foot, Saint-Augustin one minute and the Opéra about ten minutes. The address is 6 rue de la Pépinière, 75008 Paris. The loft is reached by an elevator that meets accessibility standards, and the cabins are large enough for wheelchair users. Glasses can be worn under the VR headsets.
