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$3 Million Milestone: Owlchemy’s ‘Job Simulator’ Is One of VR’s Best Selling Games

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Owlchemy Labs, the trailblazing developers of Job Simulator, today announced its VR game available for Rift, Vive, and PlayStation VR has officially cleared $3 million in sales, the largest figure we’ve heard to date for PC-based VR. It was also the most downloaded PS VR game in all of 2016 on Sony’s online PSN Store.

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A decade later, this VR treadmill is finally ready to ship

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It instead relies on a concave design and slip-on shoe covers, using the effect of foot slipping to simulate movement in VR. Early versions of the Austin, Texas hardware startup’s product were on writer Ernest Cline’s radar well before the film’s pre-production began. Funnily enough, [he] lives in Austin,” says Goetgeluk. “As

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2019 Was a Major Inflection Point for VR—Here’s the Proof

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He has looked at over 5,000 companies in the space and has invested in 35, including the makers of hit VR games like Beat Saber , Rec Room , and Job Simulator. People tend to focus on headsets sales, which remains largely speculative as only Sony ever publicly discloses numbers.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.20): Meta to perform new layoffs, Google Glass to shut down, and more!

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I still feel a lot tired because of the jet lag and the little sleep I had in Austin, but this is pretty normal, and in one week or such this feeling should go away. First of all, Sony CFO Hiroki Totoki has said that he thinks that PSVR 2 may sell more than the 5–6 million units that the original PSVR sold. I’m back in Italy!

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