SideQuest held layoffs just lately.
SideQuest makes third-party software program some house owners of Quest headsets use to load up customized residence areas, traditional video games modded for VR assist, and different unofficial content material. The software program depends on a part of the Android ecosystem, ADB, for managing a standalone VR headset from a companion gadget. To make use of the characteristic with Meta headsets you additionally should specify you are a developer to put in it.
We confirmed the layoffs with SideQuest CEO Shane Harris throughout a dwell episode of VR Obtain. Harris instructed us the method continues to be ongoing and requested to provide us particulars subsequent week.
We just lately joined SideQuest’s Banter social software program to study their AI era experiments. What we noticed in there was a formidable proof of idea for voice to 3D object era, coming just some days earlier than the layoffs.
The broader VR market is present process a shift favoring in-app purchases and free-to-play content material and UploadVR’s Henry Stockdale spoke with dozens of builders in regards to the shifting panorama for his or her work.
SideQuest joins a sequence of studios letting go employees and shrinking in dimension, different just lately reported ones together with Soul Meeting, Quick Journey Video games, nDreams and XR Video games.
We have requested Harris what number of have been let go in complete and may have extra subsequent week as soon as we have verified extra info.
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