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Meta Reportedly in Talks With Tencent to Bring Quest to China

Road to VR

Facebook and Twitter have been blocked in China since 2009, but Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is hoping to get back in that country with Quest, according to a Wall Street Journal report. In 2018, Meta (then Facebook) penned a deal with Xiaomi to release a Chinese variant of Oculus Go , sold by Xiaomi as the ‘Mi VR Standalone’.

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‘AirMech’ Studio Teases New Multiplayer VR Strategy Game Code-named ‘Cake’

Road to VR

Carbon Games , the studio behind real-time strategy game AirMech Command (2016), is currently developing a new VR project that they say will be a lighthearted, team-based game. Strategy is involved. “It’s a class-based, team-based game that’s kind of lighthearted but has real depth.

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Coatsink, Veteran VR Studio of ‘Jurassic World Aftermath’ and Others, Acquired for up to $85 Million

Road to VR

Coatsink is a British game studio and publisher founded in 2009. Though the studio doesn’t deal exclusively in VR games, about half of Coatsink’s work has been either fully self-developed VR titles or acting as a publisher on VR titles, most of which had the backing of Oculus Studios: Esper (2015). Onward (2016).

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Xbox Game Studios Has (inadvertently?) Acquired Heaps of VR Development Talent

Road to VR

Founded in 2000 by legendary game designer Tim Schafer, this is a storied studio known for games like Psychonauts (2005), Brutal Legend (2009) , and many more. The VR version of Minecraft also came to the Oculus Rift in 2016. Founded in 2009, Compulsion Games is best known for We Happy Few (2018).

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‘Edge of Nowhere’ Review

Road to VR

Edge of Nowhere is a third-person VR survival horror game recently released for the Oculus Rift that places you in 1932 in the boots of Victor, a biologist and adventurer attempting to track down his lost fiance Eva. Publisher: Oculus Studios. Available On: Oculus Home (Rift). Reviewed On: Oculus Rift. Immersion.

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. And we took that company to $250-million between 2008, 2009 to 2011. Oh, you have to be 10,000 Oculus.”

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The IKEA of AR: Making Content Effortlessly, with EON Reality’s Dan Lejerskar

XR for Business Podcast

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. And we took that company to $250-million between 2008, 2009 to 2011. Oh, you have to be 10,000 Oculus.”

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