made by Cameron Brown, who goes by the username "Gribbly" Development Seattle-based development studio Rec Room Inc. (formerly Against Gravity Corp) was co-founded in April 2016 by Nick Fajt, Cameron Brown, Dan Kroymann, Bilal Orhan, Josh Wehrly, and John Bevis. Prior to that, CEO Nick Fajt worked as a program manager on the HoloLens team at Microsoft. Dan Kroymann worked on the same team after working on the Xbox team. Rec Room Inc.′s CCO Cameron Brown also worked at Microsoft as HoloLens Creative Director. In 2016 and early 2017, the company raised $5 million in funding for the development of Rec Room and its player community. According to CEO Nick Fajt, the company will keep Rec Room free to download. In 2017, Rec Room “Junior Mode” was COPPA-certified by Samet Privacy. In June 2019, Rec Room Inc. announced that the company raised an additional $24 million over two rounds of funding. In December 2020, Rec Room Inc. announced additional $20 million in funding. In March 2021, Rec Room Inc. announced another funding round of $100 million with a valuation of $1.25 billion leading to its unicorn status. In December 2021, Rec Room Inc. announced that they raised $145 million during another funding round, bringing the studio's valuation up to $3.5 billion. Reception Dan Ackerman, writing for CNET, described Rec Room as VR's killer app. In January 2017, Ars Technica reported that trolling and harassment in Rec Room was a problem. In June 2017 MIT Technology Review contributor Rachel Metz described it as a great example of VR's potential for social interaction while criticizing its underdeveloped anti-abuse features. Filmmaker Joyce Wong described Rec Room'' as her choice of “most interesting piece of art in 2017”. References External links Official website Official community website 2016 video games Android (operating system) games Cooperative video games First-person video games Free-to-play video games HTC Vive games IOS games Massively multiplayer online games Meta Quest games Multiplayer and single-player video games Oculus Rift games PlayStation 4 games PlayStation 5 games PlayStation Move-compatible games PlayStation VR games Social casual games Video game development software Video games developed in the United States Video games with cel-shaded animation Video games with cross-platform play Video games with user-generated gameplay content Virtual reality communities Virtual reality games Windows games Xbox One games Xbox Series X and Series S games