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The full experience features a batting cage, which is, of course, where the player stands when they’re swinging for the fences. The user puts on an HTC Vive headset and picks up a weighty plastic bat with the Vive Tracker — a small $99 accessory that allows the Vive Lighthouse sensors to MLB18 Stubs follow the bat’s movement — attached to it, and then swings away.

You can see a trailer above featuring the ballpark version of Home Run Derby VR, which the league has taken to events around the world in places such as London; Nuremberg, Germany; and Cartagena, Colombia. Jamie Leece, vice president of MLBAM’s gaming and VR division, told Polygon in an interview last fall that the studio designed this version of the game to be a quick experience that takes only about 90 seconds per person — half the time playing, the other half strapping on and then removing the headset — which is crucial. Peter Banks, MLBAM’s director of marketing, said the attraction was so popular that fans often lined up to wait for multiple hours.