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Practice Guides
How-to guides for sailing in VR — upwind, docking, rigging, racing, and more.
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Mastering Twin Engines: Catamaran Docking Comes to MarineVerse Sailing Club!
Docking. It’s the moment where even seasoned sailors hold their breath. The wind catches the bow, the current pushes the stern, and suddenly that slip looks very narrow.
Two years ago, we introduced Docking practice to MarineVerse Sailing Club, giving monohull sailors a safe, stress-free environment to master slow-speed maneuvering, prop walk, and wind effects. It quickly became one of our most popular training features.
Today, we are thrilled to announce a major expansion to our Docking training modules. We’re handing you the keys (or rather, the dual throttles) to a Dual Rudder Catamaran.
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Learn to Sail in VR in 2025: Your Ultimate Guide to Getting Started (Meta Quest 3 + MarineVerse)
Ahoy there!
TL;DR: Pick up a Meta Quest 3 and download the MarineVerse Sailing Club app.
Prefer audio? Listen to the podcast version:
Learning to sail is a lifelong dream for many—whether you picture peaceful cruises or adrenaline-filled races. But that first step can feel daunting: access to boats, unpredictable weather, and finding the time all get in the way.
What if you could step onto a sailboat right now from your living room?
With Virtual Reality (VR), you can. Inspired by the common question “Learning to sail in VR—what’s the best platform to start?”, this guide shows how VR can kick-start your sailing journey before you ever set foot on real water.
What Is VR Sailing?
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Rigging Drill - Tie knots in Mixed Reality
Free download: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/6128861297199686/
Rigging Drill is a free, experimental and innovative mixed reality experience developed for Quest 2 & Pro.
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Catamaran Cruising in Akalana Islands
Embark on a tranquil Catamaran cruising adventure in the captivating Akalana Islands this summer in MarineVerse Cup:
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Practice DOCKING in VR!
We have big news for you:
Our Virtual Docking Practice Series will launch on May 4 in MarineVerse Cup!
If you’re like me, you can get a little nervous getting into a new marina.
We all know a smooth docking is a combination of technical skills, preparedness, and good communication with your crew. And we usually don’t get many opportunities to practice.
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How to Sail Upwind in MarineVerse Cup?
New MarineVerse Cup Video Shows How VR Can Help Transform You Into A Sailing Pro:
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VR Sailing with friends in multiplayer
Multiplayer sailing..
Watch how friends from Australia, Switzerland and UK go sailing together in the MarineVerse Cup.
What if you could:
- Hang out with your friends on the boat, regardless of your location
- Learn from the best coaches on the planet
- Practice tricky situations with your crew
As you can see in the video.. we can do the basics in VR today.
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The best VR gadgets to buy for a sailor in 2020
Are you looking for the best VR tech gadget for a sailor to buy, maybe as a gift?
This year, so many of us have been locked down or sheltering in place, not being able to go sailing and missing the time spent on the water.
Some of us found a way to stay connected to sailing, thanks to virtual reality. For example Pascal from France has been using VR to get his sailing fix at home.. Virtual reality is a truly amazing technology that in an instant can transport you somewhere else.
In our opinion, in 2020, VR might be one of the most practical and impactful gifts a sailor can get.
At MarineVerse, we had a chance to try all of the modern VR devices and here are our recommendations for sailors in 2020:
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The best VR gadgets to buy for a sailor in 2018
Go here for 2020 edition of the best VR gadgets to buy for a sailor.
Are you looking for the best VR tech gadget for a sailor to buy, maybe as a gift? At MarineVerse, we had a chance to try all of the modern VR devices and here are our recommendations for sailors in 2018:
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How to finish The Long Race in VR Regatta
In this video our sailing expert Nate demonstrates our system for detecting Right of Way on the water and shows how to finish the Long Race - discussing some racing tactics.
Nate had a pretty good run in the Long Race, finishing 3rd on the Leaderboard at the time of writting.
We are planning on creating more of those sailing tutorial videos, discussing different aspects of sailing, using virtual reality to showcase it.
Please let us know ( [email protected] ) what you think, how can we make it better and suggest topics you would want us to cover in the future.
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Take the helm in Virtual Reality
Tell your friends about VR Regatta - print and bring to a club - thank you :-)
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Best VR headsets to buy in 2016 as a sailor
Go here for 2020 edition of the best VR gadgets to buy for a sailor.
Are you a sailing enthusiast trying to decide which virtual reality headset to buy? At MarineVerse, we had a chance to try all of the modern VR devices and here is our recommendation for sailors:
Best mobile headset for sailors: Samsung GearVR
Best high-end headset for sailors: HTC Vive
Why? Let’s have a closer look at all the headsets and what we can do with them:
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Take sailing tutorial in virtual reality
Thanks to the latest update to VR Regatta for GearVR you can now learn some sailing in virtual reality. Check out this gameplay video:
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Tacking and Jibing in VR
Ahoy Friends,
Happy to share with you our new sailing Google Cardboard VR experiment.
Learn about tacking and jibing in virtual reality.
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Better sailing training
Recently in Toastmasters public speaking club Greg gave a speech about sailing and virtual reality. The speech was titled “A better sailing training” and you can find the speech transcript below:
Sailing brings some of my greatest memories. Fresh air, sound of water splashing on the boat. Breath taking sunsets. Great adventure: struggling with the powers of nature - wind and water.
Sailing can be truly amazing.
