VR Port Studio Joins Andreessen Horowitz Accelerator, Incomes Funding and Validation

Flat2VR Studios has been accepted into the SPEEDRUN accelerator, not solely giving the studio a monetary enhance on its mission to convey VR assist to non-VR video games, however measure of validation too.

Hosted by A16Z Video games, a games-focused funding arm of Andreessen Horowitz, Speedrun is early-stage accelerator for startups that features $750,000 in addition to “a extremely curated set of trade coaches, mentors, and a neighborhood of bold founders,” the VC agency says.

In a put up on X, Flat2VR says the accelerator “ought to assist open some doorways to porting extra of these absolute dream titles formally into VR!”

We’re so honored to have been accepted into the @a16z pace run program which ought to assist open some doorways to porting extra of these absolute dream titles formally into VR! https://t.co/s5NPJQfy88

Can’t wait to provide you a little bit sneak peek at what we’ve been as much as within the… pic.twitter.com/U8i3RwI2sK

— Flat2VR Studios 🔜 Gamescom (@Flat2VRStudios) August 1, 2024

Flat2VR Studios co-founder Elliot Tate reveals that solely 30 of round 4.000 candidates have been chosen for the accelerator, placing the studio within the firm of Speedrun veterans akin to Oculus, Health club Class VR, and Sandbox VR.

Earlier this yr, VR publishing and advertising and marketing agency Influence Actuality based Flat2VR Studios with the purpose of partaking main builders from the VR modding scene to create formally licensed VR variations of common flatscreen video games.

Whereas historically the work of hobbyists and distributed modding teams, Flat2VR Studios works straight with builders to create official VR variations of their titles. Amongst their ranks the studio counts VR porting veterans ‘Cabalistic’ and ‘Raicuparta’, famend for his or her VR variations of video games like Half-Life 2 and Outer Wilds respectively.

The studio is at the moment engaged on an official VR port of a nonetheless undisclosed recreation, which is slated to launch in late 2024 or early 2025 on main VR platforms. We’re wanting ahead to studying extra on the VR Video games Showcase on August fifteenth to study extra.