| Date | Title | Description |
| 27.01.2026 | VR Winter Looms: Meta Shifts Focus to AI and Smart Glasses | Meta redefines its future. The tech giant steers its Reality Labs division. Focus shifts from virtual reality. Artificial intelligence and smart glasses now take center stage. This strategic pivot impacts the entire VR ecosystem. Industry o... |
| 24.01.2026 | Meta’s Reality Labs cuts sparked fears of a ‘VR winter’ | Meta’s deprioritizing virtual reality in favor of artificial intelligence and Internet-connected smart glasses has chilled the VR industry.
“The market has spoken,” said Jitesh Ubrani, an analyst for IDC, who characterized VR headsets as ni... |
| 11.11.2022 | Sight Tech Global 2022 agenda announced | The third annual Sight Tech Global conference, a virtual, free and highly accessible event on December 7 and 8 convenes some of the world’s top experts working on assistive tech, especially AI, for people who are blind or visually impaired.... |
| 02.09.2021 | Job Simulator maker Owlchemy unveils Cosmonious High VR game | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
Owlchemy Labs, the ma... |
| 02.09.2021 | Job Simulator maker Owlchemy unveils Cosmonious High VR game | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Owlchemy Labs, the maker of Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator, unveiled a new virtual reality game called Cosmonious High.
The Austi... |
| 02.11.2019 | Vacation Simulator gets subtitle support for 6 languages | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Owlchemy Labs released a major update for Vacation Simulator that adds in subtitles for multiple languages along with a slew of visual ... |
| 02.11.2019 | Vacation Simulator gets subtitle support for 6 languages | Owlchemy Labs released a major update for Vacation Simulator that adds in subtitles for multiple languages along with a slew of visual enhancements to aid accessibility for players.
Supported subtitle languages include English, French, Germ... |
| 06.10.2018 | Google’s Owlchemy Labs reveals ARCore spectator experiment | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google’s Owlchemy Labs just revealed one of its e... |
| 19.12.2017 | Silicon Hills News’ Unveils 12 Startups and Tech Advocates Featured in its 2018 Austin Tech Calendar | |
| 07.06.2017 | Rick and Morty Writer: Ryan Ridley
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| 11.05.2017 | Google compra um dos estúdios mais bem-sucedidos em jogos de realidade virtual | A realidade virtual ainda está dando seus primeiros passos, mas já reúne alguns destaques. Um deles é a Owlchemy Studios, que fez alguns jogos bem-sucedidos em VR — ele agora faz parte do Google.
A Owlchemy é mais conhecida pelo jogo Job Si... |
| 11.05.2017 | Google Acquires Successful VR Game Studio Behind 'Job Simulator' And 'Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality' | Aaron Mamiit, Tech Times 11 May 2017, 07:05 am
Google has purchased Owlchemy Labs, the successful virtual reality game studio behind popular VR titles such as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality.
With the acquisition, Googl... |
| 10.05.2017 | Google Picks Up Owlchemy Labs, Austin-Based VR Startup | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Austin—Google has bought Owlchemy Labs, an Austin, TX, virtual reality startup best known for its “Job Simulator” game.
Relja Marcovik, engineering director of virtual reality... |
| 10.05.2017 | Google acquires Owlchemy Labs VR game studio | Google has acquired the VR game studio behind such popular gaming titles as Job Simulator and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality.
In a blog post, the founding team of the Austin-based Owlchemy Labs detailed that it has been acquired and wil... |
| 20.04.2017 | Adult Swim releases Owlchemy’s Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Adult Swim Games and Owlchemy Labs are releasing Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality, a virtual reality game based on the Rick and Morty... |
| 20.04.2017 | Adult Swim releases Owlchemy’s Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality | Adult Swim Games and Owlchemy Labs are releasing Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality, a virtual reality game based on the Rick and Morty sitcom on the Cartoon Network.
The “this multidimensional and incredibly immersive virtual reality exper... |
| 21.02.2017 | Google’s latest research aims to make mixed reality videos a little less alien | Consumer VR has been around for a nearly a year and there are a ton of questions floating around that still boggle even the sharper minds in the industry. One that’s been answered (to some degree), however, is how on earth developers can sh... |
| 08.01.2017 | 20 Hot Austin Startups to Watch in 2017 | By LAURA LOREK
Reporter with Silicon Hills News |
| 05.01.2017 | Six Austin Entrepreneurs Make the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 List | Forbes just named six Austin entrepreneurs to its 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 list. |
| 18.11.2016 | Conan O’Brien tries VR and things get a bit scandalous | HTC had a pretty good PR moment this week as Conan donned a Vive VR headset on his show and got up to some antics during a tour of YouTube’s VR studio. After testing his artistic hand with a self portrait in Google’s Tilt Brush, Conan immer... |
| 04.08.2016 | Owlchemy Labs Nabs $5 Million in Venture Capital | |
| 04.08.2016 | Owlchemy Labs Raises $5M Series A | Austin, Texas-based Owlchemy Labs, developer of Job Simulator and other virtual reality games, has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Qualcomm Ventures, the VC arm of Qualcomm Inc. Also joining the round are HTC, The VR Fund, Colo... |
| 03.08.2016 | Owlchemy Labs Secures $5M in Series A Funding | Owlchemy Labs, an Austin, TX – based virtual reality developer, raised a $5m Series A funding.
The round was led by Qualcomm Incorporated, through its venture investment group, Qualcomm Ventures, with participation from HTC, The VR Fund, Co... |
| 03.08.2016 | Job Simulator creator Owlchemy Labs raises $5 million for VR games | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Owlchemy Labs, the maker of the hilarious Job Sim... |
| 03.08.2016 | Owlchemy Labs nabs $5 million to keep on building crazy VR games | Owlchemy Labs wants you to reach out and grab VR content with your hands.
The Austin-based VR studio just secured a $5 million Series A led by Qualcomm Ventures with participation in the round also coming from HTC, The VR Fund, Colopl VR Fu... |
| 31.01.2016 | Hands on with Owlchemy’s silly Job Simulator virtual reality game for the HTC Vive | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
If you don’t like your job in real life, maybe it will be better in virtual reality. That outlandish notion is the idea behind Job Simu... |
| 31.01.2016 | Hands on with Owlchemy’s silly Job Simulator virtual reality game for the HTC Vive | If you don’t like your job in real life, maybe it will be better in virtual reality. That outlandish notion is the idea behind Job Simulator, a virtual reality game that lets you crazily perform familiar tasks in places like a kitchen, an o... |
