Owlchemy Labs at Steam Dev Days

Alex and Devin at Owlchemy recently gave a talk at Steam Dev Days called “Wild West of VR – Discovering the Rules of Oculus Rift”.

Through developing Aaaaacuus!, one of the first commercially available Oculus Rift games, the team at Owlchemy Labs has come to realize that 2013/2014 is truly the Wild West of VR development. In this talk, Alex and Devin cover the many revelations we’ve had during development, such the importance of respecting the player’s head direction, reduction of motion sickness, the complete reversal of UI and HUD paradigms, the introduction of developer fatigue, and realizations about subtle visual cues and the sensitivity of the inner ear.

You can watch the full talk on youtube here.