Rec Room has a million monthly VR players

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Rec Room has a million monthly VR playersMaybe VR’s not dead

Maybe VR’s not dead

Rec Roomis sort of like Roblox: a place where people can make their own games and easily chat and play with friends. Where it most differs from Roblox is its early focus on supporting virtual reality, and its developers now report that the game has “over 1 million monthly active VR users”. That’s a lot.

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I’ve spent a bit of time playingRec Room, and it’s a fun time. There are a lot of VR games aiming to provide a hangout space or an easy way of playing minigames with pals, but Rec Room is slicker than most. I particularly like its art style, which needs to be simple so folks can build stuff with it, but which is a lot cuter than most of its blocky peers.

Speaking to Road To VR, Rec Room designer Shawn Whiting said that VR users are a relatively small percentage of the game’s total userbase. That’s becaues the game can also be played with regular desktop PCs, and is also available on consoles and mobile phones. Of those that do play in VR, it seems that more than half of that one million figure are playing on the standalone Oculus Quest 2.

You can pick Rec Room up in early access viaSteamfor free.