Oculus Studios acquires Camouflaj, the Seattle-area studio behind 'Iron Man VR' - GeekWire

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Bellevue, Wash.-based crippled developer Camouflaj has joined Meta’s Oculus Studios.

Camouflaj, founded successful 2012, is the workplace down 2013’s Republique and 2019’s Iron Man VR. Its CEO, Ryan Payton, was antecedently the originative manager connected 343 Industries’ Halo 4.

“Eventually shedding our independency was ne'er the program erstwhile I started Camouflaj backmost successful 2011,” Payton wrote on Camouflaj’s website, “but everything changed aft we met the unit astatine Oculus Studios, who person treated america with thing but kindness and respect.”

The 2 companies had antecedently collaborated successful 2018 to people a VR mentation of Republique on the Oculus Go.

Iron Man VR, a crippled based connected and starring the Marvel superhero, was featured astatine Tuesday’s Meta Connect 2022 conference. Oculus itself is connected platform to people Iron Man VR arsenic an upcoming merchandise (Nov. 3) for the Meta Quest 2 standalone virtual world headset.

“Throughout the past year, I became convinced that becoming portion of Meta allows america to afloat perpetrate to our semipermanent VR ambitions,” Payton wrote, “and that our values of creating high-quality, meaningful games wrong a steadfast enactment situation perfectly align with the goals and values of the larger organization.”

Payton volition stay astatine Camouflaj arsenic its workplace head, and aft the Meta Quest 2 mentation of Iron Man VR ships, volition absorption connected an unannounced task that helium calls the studio’s “biggest crippled yet.”

Camouflaj was 1 of 3 developers that were announced arsenic caller members of the Oculus Studios network, alongside Twisted Pixel (Wilson’s Heart) and Armature Studio (Resident Evil 4 VR). Both of the second companies are headquartered successful Austin, Texas.

A Meta typical confirmed to GeekWire that each 3 studios person been officially acquired by Meta, which isn’t sharing the details of the deals.

Other Pacific Northwest gaming quality announced at Meta Connect 2022 includes:

• Among Us VR, the virtual-reality mentation of Redmond, Wash.-based Innersloth’s deed social-deduction game, volition get connected the Quest 2 connected Nov. 10. The VR mentation of the crippled was created by Pittsburgh’s Schell Games, and was exhibited successful Seattle astatine September’s Penny Arcade Expo.
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced astatine Meta Connect that a beta of Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to the Meta Quest Store. Similar to the existent Netflix app, the Quest mentation of Xbox provides players with a benignant of virtual movie theater, with Xbox games streaming from the unreality to a “massive” 2D surface and playable via an Xbox pad hooked up to your Quest 2.
• Meta’s adjacent VR headset, the “high-end” Meta Quest Pro, volition vessel connected Oct. 25 for $1,499.99.