It's not just movies like Fast and Furious 9 showing signs of life for the entertainment world.Steve Zhao's business was promising until last year his Sandbox VR company took over several retail spaces. And people will visit so they can run around, SLOTXO

shoot zombies, fencing with pirates chasing treasure. Or explore distant planets as members of the Star Trek team. They do this by joining together as many as six people in a 600 square foot room where they wear virtual reality headsets. backpack attached and an array of hand and foot sensors.

The corona virus changed everything. This effectively forced his business to shut down when customers were quarantined. "We thought, 'Oh dear, this is all done,'" Zhao said more than a year later. As the world economy slowly reopened With every vaccine injected into people's arms, Zhao's business grew again.