Making A Living In Virtual Reality

Ghost Machine was covered by the Austin Chronicle is a fantastic story detailing the current state of the virtual reality software market. Other notable interviewees include Austin based VR perennials Owlchemy Labs and Phaser Lock.

http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/screens/2016-05-31/making-a-living-in-virtual-reality/

Not all VR developers agree with this ethos of adapting to the whims of web-based communities to survive. Austin-based Ghost Machine VR is going in the opposite direction, selling their software at higher price points than they would for non-VR projects in order to compensate for higher development costs and a lower volume of sales.

Ghost Machine CEO Neal Nellans is skeptical of other developers’ emphasis on social features. Since recorded and streaming game footage is two-dimensional, he believes it isn’t able to capture the experience of being inside a virtual world.