How Gorilla Tag is weathering the VR winter
Monke gather in Gorilla Tag. | Another AxiomThis is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.
The VR industry has been on edge since Meta's massive job cuts earlier this year: One exec called the layoff announcements "one of VR's darkest weeks." There's talk of a VR winter, and multiple VR studios have conducted significant layoffs of their own.
For Gorilla Tag maker Another Axiom, however, it's monkey - or monke, as they'd say - business as usual. The most popular game on Meta's Quest VR headset reached a new audience high this past weekend, when 119,000 players joined ...