Ready at Dawn Studiosgame studio behind Echo The virtual reality series for Meta Quest has been launched by parent Meta with immediate effect.
Android Center Almost a year and a half after buying Meta’s game studio, Dawn Studios announced its decision to close Ready. News follows mid-July report Meta plans to cut its Reality Labs division’s budget by 20 percent by 2026, when it plans to release its next VR headsets, the Meta Quest 4 and Quest 4s.
Dawn’s presence in the gaming industry dates back to the days of Sony’s PlayStation Portable (PSP). The studio released its first game in 2006 with the popular PSP spinoff Daxter. Jacques and Daxter series. Ready at Dawn also released three titles Sony’s God of War series including for PSP Chains of Olympus, the dream of Spartaa and The Olympus Collection this combines the two previous titles. The studio made the transition to consoles in 2015, starting with the PlayStation 4. Order: 1886. The Victorian-era third-person action-adventure has become one of the most anticipated games of the year due to its boundary-pushing graphics. After a wave of mixed reviews, Ready at Dawn hit multiplayer in 2017 with a more cheerful mood. De-formers For PS4, Xbox One and PC. Engadget Editor-in-Chief Jessica Conditt described the colorful character fighting competition as “combating cannibalism in a 3D cartoon.”
The rise of virtual reality and its ease of access prompted the studio to move into a new immersive gaming environment again in 2018. The studio released its first two VR titles Echo series of games including the free-to-play Oculus Rift and Quest virtual sports Echo Arena and an interactive, zero-gravity sci-fi adventure Lone Echo. Both found a fanbase in the all-in-one VR headset, leading to sequels including a free-floating arena shooter. Echo Battle In 2018 and Lone Echo II in 2021.
Oculus bought the studio in 2023 and allowed it to continue operating in its California and Oregon offices. In the same year, Meta stopped working for free Echo VR game due to the decrease in player count.
There is meta cut off More than 20,000 jobs since 2023, a period described by CEO Mark Zuckerberg as “the year of efficiency”.
