PokerStars

Buy 10 Oculus Quests and host a recurring VR poker home game

Frustrated by the logistics of an in-person poker night, Shaan and his co-founder bought 10 Oculus Quest headsets to mail to friends so they can meet every Thursday in PokerStars' VR app, picking up cards and tossing chips from their own couches.

“our solution was let's buy 10 of these Oculus Quests. Let's send it to our friends. And, you know, Thursday nights we're gonna get together in, uh, they have PokerStars has made a VR app. We'll get together. I've seen this. We'll get together at a poker, poker table.”

Steal thisUse VR headsets to turn a hard-to-schedule in-person ritual into a recurring remote one.