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posted by martyb on Friday May 12 2017, @08:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the gives-a-hoot-about-VR dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 12 2017, @08:41AM (2 children)

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      by bob_super (1357) on Friday May 12 2017, @10:35PM (#508885)

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