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How Gorilla Tag is weathering the VR winter

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. The VR industry has been on edge since Meta's massive job cuts earlier this year: One exec called the layoff announcements "one of VR's...

How Gorilla Tag is weathering the VR winter
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Monke gather in Gorilla Tag. | Another Axiom

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.

The VR industry has been on edge since Meta's massive job cuts earlier this year: One exec called the layoff announcements "one of VR's darkest weeks." There's talk of a VR winter, and multiple VR studios have conducted significant layoffs of their own.

For Gorilla Tag maker Another Axiom, however, it's monkey - or monke, as they'd say - business as usual. The most popular game on Meta's Quest VR headset reached a new audience high this past weekend, when 119,000 players joined …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Originally published at The Verge

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