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Google’s VR Studio Owlchemy Labs Now Has Two Platinum-selling Titles

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Owlchemy Labs, the Google-owned VR studio behind Job Simulator (2016), announced the game’s sequel Vacation Simulator (2019) just went platinum, having now topped over one million units sold. The studio’s breakout title Job Simulator went platinum in early 2020, owing not only to its fun and approachable gameplay, but also for having been a launch title for HTC Vive, PSVR, and […]

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Meta Wants Android Play Store Apps Officially on Quest but Google “didn’t want to”

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There are relatively few 2D Android apps available on the Quest Store, which seems odd since the Quest hardware runs a modified version of Android. According to Meta CTO Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, Google simply isn’t interested in bringing the full Play Store of apps to Quest. “There’s nothing preventing Android developers who have an APK

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After Reports of Canned AR Glasses, Google’s XR Ambitions May Be Just a Daydream Without Samsung

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Google has reportedly shelved a multi-year project that sought to commercialize an AR headset, known as Project Iris. Provided the report is true, it appears Google will now need to rely on Samsung to compete with Meta and Apple in XR. According to Business Insider, Google shut down Project Iris earlier this year following mass restructuring,

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Samsung Partners with Google & Qualcomm to Release Android-powered XR Device

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Samsung’s 2023 Unpacked event was all about the company’s Galaxy S23 hardware, although at the end of its hour-long presentation the South Korean tech giant announced it was working with Qualcomm and Google to develop an XR device. TM Roh, Samsung’s president and head of mobile experiences, didn’t reveal any more than what was said on

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