NHL has licensed its name to Sense Arena, a VR hockey training game.
NHL has licensed its name to Sense Arena, a VR hockey training game.
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Sense Arena unveils VR-based NHL ice hockey training with sensors on sticks

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sense Arena is launching a virtual reality game for ice hockey training dubbed NHL Sense Arena for the Meta Quest 2 headset.

The game comes from Sense Arena, a studio in Prague, Czech Republic. The game is coming this fall, and Sense Arena has a multi-year agreement with the NHL for the title. Sense Arena has been out in the market since 2018, but this is the first experience that carries the NHL brand name.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.