Melbourne’s Phoria design studio was tapped by Meta to build an immersive web app for the new Quest Pro mixed-reality headset.
Trent Clews-de Castella admits he was a little confused when the company formerly known as Facebook asked his Melbourne design studio, Phoria, to help realise Mark Zuckerberg’s dream of turning Facebook into a metaverse company.
Trent Clews-de Castella, co-founder and CEO of Phoria, with the Quest Pro headset Meta launched last week.“They just came to us. They didn’t say ‘Here’s a bid, submit your ideas.’ They were like, ‘You’re the best in the world at this, let’s do something new together’.the job?’ and they were like, ‘Yeah’,” Mr Clews-de Castella says., made in conjunction with UK real-time graphics design team Lusion, which Meta demonstrated as part of the launch of its Quest Pro mixed-reality headset.
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