Job Simulator is First SteamVR Game Announced - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 March 2015 / 2,389 Views
Developer Owlchemy Labs has announced that they have been developing a game for the last five months for Steam VR, Valve's Virtual Reality technology.The game is called Job Simulator and will be playable at Valve's GDC booth.
"Ever since the Oculus Rift Kickstarter, we’ve been fervent believers in the potential of VR and ecstatic about the forthcoming widespread consumer adoption of such a transformative new medium," said developer Owlchemy Labs in the announcement post. "When the first Oculus development kit was released, we saw the potential and knew it would play a very important part in the future of Owlchemy Labs."
"We were lucky to have access to an existing title (Aaaaa! For the Awesome!) that we’d built, which was an incredible match for the Oculus DK1, so we set out to build Aaaaaculus!, one of the first fully-featured VR games. We learned an incredible amount throughout development and the more we explored the fertile design-space that VR affords, the more we wanted to move into this new space."
"It’s thrilling to play a part in the upcoming explosion of consumer VR and we’re proud to add another amazing opportunity to the list by being one of only a few select developers building content for some of the most incredible VR hardware in the world."
"Our friends and family have been incredibly supportive by putting up with our vaguebooking and cryptic tweets about 'the future.' It’s been so hard to keep this stuff to ourselves and can’t wait to talk all about it this week!"
"Seeing our company logo along side Valve’s in the HTC announcement keynote is surely a pivotal moment for Owlchemy Labs and we simply cannot wait for folks to experience Job Simulator at GDC."
This news comes on the same day HTC announced they have been developing a VR headset, the Vive, with Valve. It uses the SteamVR technology.
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A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. Outside, in the real world, he has a passion for the outdoors which includes everything from hiking to having received his B.A. in Environmental Studies. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
