Google has acquired Owlchemy Labs, the studio that created games such as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality:
Owlchemy is known for developing games that closely mimic using real hands, and a blog post assures readers that it's "continuing to focus on hand interactions and high quality user experiences, like with Job Simulator." Schwartz says that full-motion hand tracking is "kind of our key factor." That stands in contrast to Google's current VR platform, Daydream — which uses a remote with limited motion controls. "We have a pretty big vision" for virtual and augmented reality, says Google VR and AR engineering director Relja Markovic. "Daydream's a great product — I love my Daydream. But there will be many, many things that come after that."
Meanwhile, Oculus has closed its own in-house "Story Studio", which made short VR films such as Lost, Henry, and Dear Angelica.
Also at VentureBeat and Tom's Hardware.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @08:35AM (4 children)
Why can't Google just *collaborate* with Owlchemy Labs to.. do whatever it is they want to do? Why does it always have to be a purchase? Everyone knows this is going to end with "Owlchemy Labs gets shut down by Google".
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday May 12 2017, @08:36AM (2 children)
Jews. Jew-related problems.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @08:44AM (1 child)
Damn, nigger. That's a lazy troll even for you. Nigger.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @09:07AM
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(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday May 12 2017, @11:18AM
Because this is one way to eliminate a competitor: buy it and close it.
You think Owlchemy would willingly collaborate to their owl** closure?
** Silly pun, I know
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