Hello 👋🏻

We pride ourselves in not having a crunch culture! It's something we take seriously and actively try to prevent each time we have a planning meeting. The only time we've had to crunch was during a Saturday afternoon—for the Quest 1 launch of Gadgeteer. What happened was we had built Gadgeteer for the most popular VR headset at the time (HTC Vive). It was a PCVR headset, and at the time, standalone headsets didn't exist yet. So, when the Quest 1 headset was made available to us, it took a considerable amount of effort to optimize our game for it. We haven't had crunch any time after that and we don't plan to!

We start our day at 9am by saying hello to everyone on Slack. We have our morning stand-up meetings at 9:30am (15 mins max). It's a great way to catch up on what everyone's working on with a bit of banter to start our day. On most days there aren't any other meetings to be had so you'll have large blocks of focus time for you to do your work. Lunches are 1 hour long, and we like to start them between 11am~11:30am to beat the rush, but you can start your lunch any time you want. We have bi-weekly retro meetings to go over what we did well and what we can improve on. We also have monthly planning meetings to make sure we're on the right track. We take lots of short breaks throughout the day, and we end our day by saying good-bye to everyone on Slack.

In 5 years, we would have moved on from being a hit-driven business. The majority of VR studios today are hit-driven businesses and therefore require a lot of luck to survive. Our next project will allow us to transition out of this model and into one that is more mature and stable. We plan on developing and supporting this next project for the indefinite future. Additionally, our end goal is to have people work with us from all over the world (remotely). That means more diversity in backgrounds, broader range of ideas, and more flexibility in where you work and when you work. You could travel the world while working on mind-bending XR experiences, for example! Finally, in 5 years, we would have released our next project which will introduce never-before-seen XR concepts and (we hope!) will revolutionize our industry.

We don't think of VR / AR / MR as another display technology. We see them as primitive teleportation devices that can teleport us to different realities. We believe everyone has their own way of perceiving and understanding reality, and that the true power of spatial computing lies in sharing these realities in a way that feels as real to others as they do to us—helping us to connect on a level not possible before.