Olecomm Labs has done this once again. Behind the studio The job simulator And The holiday simulatorTwo games that helped players introduce players to Virtual Reality. With its sophisticated torment dinner/garage simulator Dimensional double shiftThe company is once again changing strategies with new ways to create VR games.
But this time, his experiences are not just technical or designing in nature. Olifamy Labs were released in 2024 Dimensional double shift As a Free to Play Open Beta, one of the first to the company to pack its previous games as stand loan products. It is also the company’s first multi -player game, as included in the ranks of popular titles Gorilla tag And VR Chat. As the Multi -Player Party has been a while, Aulkimi Labs “Chief Executive Auel” Andrew Aichi told the game developer in a chat in Dice 2025 that the game is always part of the studio’s strategy to maintain the shifting VR market.
It is always worth checking where great studios have the next opportunity – and in our chat, Aichi is happy to open the pack how the studio maintains new trends like social multi -player while there is no quality sacrifice along the way.
VR players want to wander with their friends
As if Gorilla tag We have been shown, the growing number of VR users is amazingly young, and is not interested in the same kind of sports that are dominated in the early days of HTC View and Okolas Quest (now Meta Quest). As Harop has been repeated several times in the conversation about Roblox And popular with other sports AdolescentThe next generation of players is more interested in “social experiences” than their predecessors.
But this is the clinical (and probably weird) to say. Achichi says that when Olyemim is talking to players, he heard that he was put in a more clean and straightforward way. “They’re not going here ” Can you add a multi -player? ‘ That’s even more, ‘Why can’t I play with my friends?’
Photo via Olchima Labs/Google.
Photo via Olchima Labs/Google.
The difference is that the first question is a new feature request, and the latter is to understand that “playing with your friends” is a default expectation. So when Allokimi started working Dimensional double shiftWith his friends, the number of players in groups was a number.
This is a purpose that has become more difficult when photographing VR economics. Olimemi’s previous premium games only cost $ 20, but if four players want to run their multi -dimensional dinner/garage, the game will be at a maximum of $ 80. “Consumers care about where their dollars go,” he said. “So for us the need to need it, ‘If we want to create a multi -player game, we need people not to feel the friction of the game.’
Meanwhile, Olikemy observed that Meta Quest Store-Current VR Earth-in-the-Facto Leader-a more “App Store” style algorithmic system was transferred to the system that brings more free games with app purchases. Alokimi has no experience of free toplay, so it was difficult to commit a long giant cycle without any firm understanding about the manipulation. Therefore, the decision to launch in the open son.
He said, “Our job is to ensure that it does not move towards the dark part of the (minetization). Many developers Recently examining).
Open beta launch has only helped Alokimi to help them, this helped them know where they should focus on the development of their game. As they were suspected, Dimensional double shift Players prefer casual science fiancé/garage shineian on a really tough competition (sometimes make their ad hoc minagges). They also enjoy sports methods (known as “shifts”) who offer some competition, but this is not the center of the game.
What wonders for them? When they launched, they did not expect the players to play with anyone other than people already knowing. But they quickly received the opinion that the players really wanted match -making options. He wanted to meet people and experience a life of harmony with a new friend.
VR Multi Player turns to Game Development on his head
The developers are unlikely that the transformation of a multi -player development from a single player to a whole host of challenges introduces. Achich said that Olcomim would have to make major changes in his usual formula and all of his previous tech solutions would have to be prepared for a multi -player by giving “cherry”.
He said, the biggest development was in the world of proximity to the players. To this point, the “secret” of the VR multi -player is that the player’s “circle”, that is, the area around his avatar, never needs to be touched. If they do so, it may be violently evacuated or (or worse, is the basis for harassment. Achichi said that Olkeemi did just aggressively dealing with the problem for 3 years. In a game of a sports, it does not help to avoid one another, in a game of dinner/garage.
Other points of pain include fluid physics and hand tracking data, he said. Continuous improvement in hand tracking capabilities allows players to discuss more in VR-but they also include millions of data points that have to network in 4 machines.
Photo via Olchima Labs/Google.
Photo via Olchima Labs/Google.
“Fluid physics did not include it almost in the game,” he said. The team initially caught with the fact that they didn’t think they could enforce this feature, even though it was a popular part. Cosmonius highFor, for, for,. The job simulatorAnd The holiday simulator. But he said in the history of Olcommo, “We can’t do it” often turns into more courage than an obstacle.
“We confidently say that we cannot do anything,” he said, “We cannot make a sandwich and lift them. They have to be made on a sandwich maker.” “And then a giant looks wild in their eyes, and they lose their mind, and they are like that, ‘I will do it. God has done it. We are going to work for fluids.”
So features such as fluid (and Sandwich) often make it “despite this” in the Olychima Games.
Where is VR?
2024 was a rough year for the virtual reality market. Although the jumps Batman Arkham Shadow Had a success of the holiday seasonAnalysis indicates that Meta Quest had to suffer a slowdown in sales for which the busiest month should have been Headset
In the meantime Meta has indicated This is checking Billions of dollars its realistic labs divisions have ended, and Leaved the workers of Reality Labs In June last year. The Meta Quest is not the only headset in the market, but it is the most popular, and slowing sales can be a disappointing news for VR developers.
Aichi said he was not unconscious. Despite being owned by Meta’s competitor Google (in the process of rolling Android XR itself, the Meta, Valve, and Sony Interactive Entertainment’s VR platforms), Olkeemi remained a multi -pufferum studio, which focused on the parent’s company’s hardware forward. He said he was passionate about the capacity of Android XR, though Olifimi’s PR representative emphasized that he was fully speaking as a Boss of VR Studio, not as a Google employee.
He thinks when some VR Firms have lost a bit when it comes to the fact that VR is considered “for”. He argued, “People do not like technology,” surprisingly boldly claiming how technology has attacked everyday life. “But that’s fine. This is just an important thing with which they interact like a dishwasher adult is part of an adult.”
“The thing we have to respond to as an industry is, ‘Why is it so precious that it is capable of keeping warm and heavy and a little isolated (put on your head?’
That is why he is not a fan of the idea of ​​”general computing” (general desktop task such as spreadsheet and email). “Fully the answer is the answer,” he said, citing software experiences. It is believed that VR users are open to such tasks-but they will be better presented as a completely infected VR experience relaxation, not a lesser version of what its players do outside their headset.
VR Studios have been specially Hard hit By the mass game industry Slow. In 2023-2025, with some goddesses say it is a “The uncertain year“For this sector. Ice will not be a great chief executive owl if he tells us that he thinks the sky is falling on the VR, but it is appropriate to say that the challenges of this field are facing. Their scale is still being arranged.
If Dimensional double shift There is a useful reference point, the developers still have the capacity to find a stable foundation in this experimental field – even if you sometimes need a little “though” to find it.
