Lone Echo II<\/em>, which is currently in development. In addition to setting the bar for narrative VR experiences, Lone Echo re-wrote the playbook for VR movement mechanics with the debut of Ready At Dawn\u2019s signature innovative continuous locomotion system and full-body IK (inverse kinematics). The zero-g mechanic is used throughout the Echo Games franchise and lends itself well to VR beginners and competitive VR esports alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAs part of the Oculus Studios team, Ready At Dawn will continue creating memorable, immersive, and innovative VR content for gamers around the world as an independently-operated studio. We\u2019re thrilled to welcome them to the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why Ready At Dawn?<\/strong>
Ready At Dawn is a veteran game developer, having shipped games to multiple platforms in the past, and a VR pioneer. They\u2019ve created four games for the Oculus platform since 2017, including Lone Echo<\/em>, Echo Arena<\/em>, Echo Combat<\/em>, and Lone Echo II<\/em> (currently in development), all of which feature Ready At Dawn\u2019s signature zero-g continuous locomotion system and full-body IK (inverse kinematics). With Facebook\u2019s latest advancements in VR technology, Ready At Dawn can readily explore a future of rich and immersive original VR content.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHow will Ready At Dawn maintain its culture as they become part of Facebook?<\/strong>
As with any development studio, the people that comprise it are integral to its success, and that\u2019s no different for Ready At Dawn. The tight-knit community at the studio and their focus, in turn, on cultivating passionately engaged gaming communities are aspects of the company we admire and intend to maintain. They will continue to build amazing game experiences as an independent studio operating out of their current offices in Irvine, CA, and Portland, OR, with the full support of Facebook and the Oculus Studios team behind them.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat will Ready At Dawn be working on as part of Oculus Studios?<\/strong>
The studio is working on\u00a0Lone Echo II<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWill they be developing for Quest or the Rift Platform?<\/strong>
Ready At Dawn will continue to support and iterate on Echo VR<\/em>\u2019s success on Quest. Ready At Dawn has exciting plans for future games<\/p>\n\n\n\nIs everyone at Ready At Dawn moving over to Facebook?<\/strong>
The entire Ready At Dawn team will be joining the Oculus Studios team.<\/p>\n\n\n\nDo you plan to acquire other studios? What else are you doing to accelerate VR?<\/strong>
Facebook exploring many ways to accelerate VR, and Facebook have awesome and innovative plans for the next few years of gaming. Facebook is thrilled to have Ready At Dawn join their team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook continues to add VR developers to its stable of Oculus studios, as the company announced the acquisition of Ready at Dawn Studios. There are few higher compliments a developer can receive besides, \u201cI dreamed about your game.\u201d Many of us experienced that very phenomenon with Lone Echo\u2014our adventures with the main character Liv were so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}