May 10 Google announced their purchase of Owlchemy Labs. For those of you who don’t know who they are, they’re the creators behind Job Simulator, and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. They’ll be releasing a few VR games for a couple of different platforms. It’s also important to add that Google has bought a couple of other studios such as Tilt Brush, Skillman and Hackett back in 2015.

“We have a slate of original games that we have in production and prototyping phase, and we’re going to continue to do that,” said co-founder Alex Schwartz.

Schwartz added “We’re very excited to continue to do that with the support of Google behind us.”

Owlchemy is mostly known for developing games that mimic real hand movements. They try their best to give you a real, immersive VR experience. In a recent blog post it seems that they’re going to keep true to their roots.

Schwartz stated “Continuing to focus on hand interactions and high quality user experiences, like with Job Simulator.”

This goes hand in hand with Google’s current VR platform, Daydream, which uses a remote that involves movement. This is more like the Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive. The VR and AR (Augmented Reality) engineering director Relja Markovic has high hopes for his this purchase. Stating “We have a pretty big vision.” Markovic then went on to say “Daydream’s a great production- I love daydream. But there will be many, many things that come after that.”

What he truly meant by that is anyone’s guess and could be interpreted any way. Even though Google is making big moves, it has made some VR experiences for people who do not own Google headsets like Tilt Brush, and Google Earth. But with all the recent moves made by Google it seems to be that they are moving into making something bigger with their current Platform Daydream.

It’s important to note that Owlchemy didn’t start off as a VR studio at all. When they began back in they made indie games and they caught a lot of attention with their controversial game Smuggle Truck. But they decided to make VR games when Oculus released a VR kit, making Job Simulator that was available on all major VR platforms. The game did so good it passed $3 million in sales at the start of 2017.

Schwartz and Markovic will still deal heavily with the VR development community, sharing their knowledge and best practices. As well as potentially contributing to Google’s experimental Daydream Lab programs.