Owlchemy Labs unveils Vacation Simulator as its next VR title

Owlchemy Labs just showed off its next virtual reality title: Vacation Simulator. The company, which made the big VR hit Job Simulator, made the announcement tonight at The Game Awards, the big awards show for gaming in Los Angeles.

Geoff Keighley with the makers of Vacation Simulator.

“It’s a natural progression. After your job, you go on vacation,” said Alex Schwartz, cofounder of Owlchemy, which Google acquired in May.

The VR game will debut on all the VR platforms.

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.