Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

During the Google Developer Day presentation at GDC 2018, Product Manager Clementine Jacoby and Engineering Lead Patrick Donelan at Google Maps presented the team’s progress in bringing their technology and data to game developers. Several ‘location-based’ AR games using Google Maps APIs and ARCore are coming to mobile devices this year.

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AllThingsVR

MAY 23, 2017

Weekly Funding & People Roundup: Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio, Improbable grabs $502M, Vivid Vision raises $2.2M, Oculus’s first employee just left 1) Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. Read more here.

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VRScout

MAY 25, 2017

Makers of Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality and Job Simulator (which earned $3M in sales), it seems like Owlchemy will continue releasing the slate of original games already in their pipeline and will be able to distribute that content on platforms other than Google’s Daydream. …and just a few more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Game Developers Conference (GDC) // February 27th – March 3rd. Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Driving Simulation Conference (DSC) // September 6th – September 8th. Registration: Exhibitor | Attendee. VRDC – Virtual Reality Developers Conference // February 27th – 28th. San Francisco, California. Dublin, Ireland.

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