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Rec Room social VR app creator Against Gravity raises $5 million

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Rec Room is a zany social virtual reality game, where you can play within a virtual sports environment while chatting with others in the same virtual space. And it was novel enough to enable its developer, Against Gravity, to raise $5 million in funding.

The funding announced today came from Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, Acequia Capital, Vulcan, Maveron, Anorak Ventures, Betaworks, and The Venture Reality Fund. It’s interesting to see large general tech VC firms like Sequoia and Vulcan join what is otherwise a group of VR-focused investors.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. 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.