{"id":14410,"date":"2026-05-28T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/when-we-started-our-studio-we-made-the-wrong-games-millions-of-meta-quest-owners-are-playing-games-like-ug-vr-every-month-and-are-redefining-vr-as-we-know-it\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:32:06","slug":"when-we-started-our-studio-we-made-the-wrong-games-millions-of-meta-quest-owners-are-playing-games-like-ug-vr-every-month-and-are-redefining-vr-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runwayritz.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/when-we-started-our-studio-we-made-the-wrong-games-millions-of-meta-quest-owners-are-playing-games-like-ug-vr-every-month-and-are-redefining-vr-as-we-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"‘When we started our studio, we made the wrong games.’ Millions of Meta Quest owners are playing games like Ug VR every month, and are redefining VR as we know it."},"content":{"rendered":"
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In his weekly column, Senior Android Content Producer Nick Sutrich delves into all things VR, from new hardware to new games, upcoming technologies, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
When Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook bought Oculus in 2014, the company billed VR as “a strong candidate to emerge as the next social media platform.” Seven years later, in 2021, Facebook rebranded itself as Meta in an attempt to become the de facto leader of the metaverse.<\/p>\n
In the five years since then, a lot has changed at Meta, but one thing is clear: the first vision of VR as the next social platform is becoming a reality, even if the way to get there seems to be very different from what was expected.<\/p>\n