Facebook buys Beat Games, the studio behind the biggest ever virtual reality hit. What does that mean for Beat Saber?
In summer Rumors made the roundsthat Facebook is willing, more than a billion dollars Invest in new VR games and buy developer studios.
Now the social network confirms the conjectures of his first developer acquisition: The Prague studio Beat Games is now a first-party developer of Oculus Studios. How much money for the acquisition flowed, is not known.
Developed by Beat Games (formerly Hyperbolic Magnetism) Beat Saber is with more than a million units sold so far most successful VR-exclusive game.
Beat Games should remain largely independent despite acquisition. In the Oculus blog Facebook's XR content boss Mike Verdu asserted that the acquisition serves the purpose of the studio equip with more resources and Virtual reality To bring even more to the people.
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No VR title reaches as many people as the Lichtsäbelei. BILD: Beat Games
Does Facebook turn off custom song sideloading?
The game itself should not change: Beat Saber will be released with updates and songpacks for all VR platforms, The announced in the summer 360 degree mode as well as new music will come out in December.
But what happens to the modding that made Beat Saber first to the VR high flyer? Facebook wants to get the modding values, it says in the blog. Verdu, however, makes at the same time on the new Oculus policies that ban piracy.
It's quite possible that Facebook is now more active against users who download pirated songs in Beat Saber. Last time it was called by Beat Gamesthat you want to implement an official feature to use custom songs in Beat Saber.
By the way, it should not stay with the beat games purchase. In the Oculus blog, Facebook indicates that more studios could follow next year. 2020 will be "an incredible year for VR games and announcements". All coming VR games releases we have listed in the linked article for you.
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Cover Picture: Beat Games, Source: Oculus Blog