![]() ![]() We are continuing to do all of this with even more support and focus on building awesome stuff. "This means continuing our mission to build VR for everyone, and doing all of this as the same silly Owlchemy Labs you know and love. "This means continuing to focus on hand interactions and high quality user experiences, like with Job Simulator," Owlchemy said. Going forward, Owlchemy said it plans to continue making "high-quality VR content" for PlayStation VR, Oculus Touch, and HTC Vive, though no specific projects were announced. The statement continues: "Our plan to build awesome things will continue forward stronger than ever." As we look to the future with Google by our side, we couldn't be happier." In a blog post, the studio said, "Today is a REAAAALLY BIG day for Owlchejmy. Here are some videos of Job Simulator in action.Owlchemy Labs, the Texas-based studio behind the virtual reality game Job Simulator and Rick & Morty: Virtual Rick-ality, has been acquired by none other than technology behemoth Google. The title will sell for money, and it will be a launch title on the HTC Vive. Two other environments haven’t been revealed yet. Those include the gourmet chef, the convenience store clerk, and the office worker. Job Simulator will have five different jobs by the time it launches. ![]() ![]() “The VR explosion has led to growth for us,” Schwartz said. The company was founded in 2010, and it started with non-VR PC games on Steam, as well as mobile releases. It has raised an undisclosed amount of money. Owlchemy Labs has 15 employees in Austin, Texas. “It’s these single-player games that you don’t expect to be a social experience,” Schwartz said. If people can watch what you’re doing in VR on a big screen and laugh along with you, that could make the experience more fun and something you’d break out at one party after another. ![]() Indeed, that’s not the first time I’ve heard that the key to success of a VR app is how social it is. And that revolves around the humor and the social experience.” “We have to think of a product that people come back to over and over. “The demo took a month, and the full game is taking over a year,” Schwartz said. They’re making the title using the Unity game engine. Owlchemy started work on the game in January 2015, and it was one of the first developers to get access to the Steam VR and HTC Vive developer kit. The company has to figure out how to make the leap from a free demo to a paid offering. So Owlchemy started working on doing a physics-based title where you could do tactile tasks. It was so much fun to pick up things and knock them over.” We tried to decide what we could do with that. When we were invited to the VR room at Valve in October 2014, they said we would have tracked hands in VR. “You take the expectations and break them. “We started doing some very esoteric jobs at first, but we realized that the everyday jobs in a dry office cubicle where the humor was,” he said. That’s something you would never do in real life, said Alex Schwartz, CEO and chief scientist at Owlchemy Labs in Austin, Texas, in an interview with GamesBeat. If you want, you can crack a wine bottle on your head and leave the glass on the floor. That one stumped me, as I didn’t realize I had to open a file cabinet under my desk and get a form there. I also tried the office worker event as well. I had to slice things and grab items from the refrigerator. We’ll serve it anyway.” So, I scooped it up and put it on a plate and rang the bell. ![]()
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