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Investor: “VR is one of the fastest growing gaming markets”

Investor: „VR ist einer der am schnellsten wachsenden Spielemärkte“

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With Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator, two of the best known are investing Tech venture capital firms in VR. Andreessen Horowitz justifies the investment, among other things, with the high growth of the VR gaming market compared to traditional gaming.

The VR basketball game “Gym Class” started as a simple feasibility demo in the Sidequest Store. It’s now a successful insider tip: the basketball game was downloaded around a million times in the Oculus App Lab.

Gym Class wants to capture the real basketball game as realistically as possible from a first-person perspective. You can play it alone or together with friends and strangers. It is purely optimized for VR.

Top ratings for VR basketball simulation

The free version has been well received so far: The one so far one million downloads