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Stellar Cafe is now available on Steam! Play with your voice on PC (no VR required), Steam Deck, or the new Steam Frame! 😎 store.steampowered.com/app/4415130/...
AstroBeam
@astrobeam.com
Defining The Future of Voice Interactions in Games Creating more comfortable, more accessible, and more human ways to interact https://linktr.ee/astrobeamhq
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Stellar Cafe is now available on Steam! Play with your voice on PC (no VR required), Steam Deck, or the new Steam Frame! 😎 store.steampowered.com/app/4415130/...
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I’m speaking at Android Dev Summit next week! 🎤 I’ll be talking about building fast and cost-effective cloud voice agents, drawing on our learnings from creating Stellar Cafe and [unannounced title] 👀 Wed, Oct 28 · 3:30 PM PDT rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/andro...
Stellar Cafe is now available on PC! Play on Steam, earn an achievement, and let that sense of accomplishment carry you through the week. store.steampowered.com/app/4415130/...
📢 We're thrilled to announce Stellar Cafe is coming to Steam🎉 Play with your voice on Steam Frame, PC, and Steam Deck! ✨Wishlist now on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/4415130/...
🎉Big update! Stellar Cafe’s NPCs now respond over 30% faster for a truly real-time voice experience thanks to Gemma 4 + Inworld Realtime TTS-2 To celebrate, get 30% off on Meta Quest using promo code gofast-52FEA1 ✨Get it now on Meta Quest: metaque.st/4lr5Hnp Maybe other platforms soon…
“players holding real conversations with NPCs, using context and natural speech rather than scripted triggers. That meant the game had to respond the same way it was being spoken to.” -Inworld inworld.ai/customers/as...
🎉Live NOW on Twitch, Job Simulator’s 10 year anniversary celebration! 🎂 Join @devinreimer.bsky.social & @buddingmonkey.bsky.social for the festivities twitch.tv/owlchemylabs
🎉Live NOW on Twitch, Job Simulator’s 10 year anniversary celebration! 🎂 Join @devinreimer.bsky.social & @buddingmonkey.bsky.social for the festivities twitch.tv/owlchemylabs
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Almost time! Job Simulator 10 year anniversary Twitch stream! twitch.tv/owlchemylabs
Job Simulator is 10 years old! 🥳 Join AstroBeam’s CEO (former Owlchemy Labs CEOwl) @devinreimer.bsky.social & current CEOwl @buddingmonkey.bsky.social live at 11am CT for the birthday extravaganza 🎉 twitch.tv/owlchemylabs
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Check this out next Monday @buddingmonkey.bsky.social and I will hosting a 10 year Job Simulator anniversary live on Twitch!
Do you love [JOB]? CEOwl @buddingmonkey.bsky.social and former CEOwl @devinreimer.bsky.social are hosting our 10 year Job Simulator anniversary celebration live on Twitch April 6th! 🎉 The party starts at 11 AM CT and YOU’RE INVITED! 👉 twitch.tv/owlchemylabs
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“You will feel more emotions in a shorter span of time playing Stellar Cafe than in practically anything else on the Meta platform.”
From inception to publication in roughly 30 minutes of writing here looking at what @tovanbo.bsky.social & @devinreimer.bsky.social are saying about the future of VR software. goodvr.substack.com/p/voice-inte...
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Stellar Cafe is a brief, lighthearted cosmic experience in voice-driven AI NPC interactions. Our full review. Read our full review:
💫Take out your phone right now, download the Meta Horizon App (we know you don't have it) and check out #StellarCafe ✨ Or click this link: metaque.st/4lr5Hnp
🎄Keep the good times going and the drinks flowing this holiday.🥂 ✨Stellar Cafe is NOW AVAILABLE on Meta Quest: metaque.st/4lr5Hnp
Artificial intelligence but natural gossip. Pull up a seat and join the conversation at #StellarCafe ✨NOW AVAILABLE on Meta Quest: metaque.st/4lr5Hnp
“…its ability to make you forget you’re playing a “game” and instead feel like you’re genuinely talking – and occasionally laughing – with virtual characters is a remarkable achievement for a first outing.” - Press Play Media pressplaynews.net/2025/12/20/v...
🚨 Patch 1 is live, Happy Patch Day! 🎉 ✨Stellar Cafe is NOW AVAILABLE on Meta Quest: metaque.st/4lr5Hnp
Million dollar idea. Spend years making a game where you can talk to NPCs, then ask them for million dollar ideas.💸 ✨Stellar Cafe is NOW AVAILABLE on Meta Quest: metaque.st/4lr5Hnp
This is what happens when NPCs aren’t scripted 💀 ✨Stellar Cafe is NOW AVAILABLE on Meta Quest: metaque.st/4lr5Hnp
Did you hear, Stellar Cafe is New &🔥Hot on the Meta Quest Store. Don't just take their word for it, Check it out for yourself now! metaque.st/4lr5Hnp
Extra special thanks to @owlchemylabs.com. Stellar Cafe utilized OwlchemyVR (Owlchemy Labs tech stack to handle many XR related features including hand tracking). This allowed us to focus our attention on the big new challenge of voice input.
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I’m so proud of the @astrobeam.com team for creating something that was not only this ambitious, but something that had never been done before! Stellar Cafe was one of the hardest things I’ve ever built and it wouldn’t have been possible without such an amazing team. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKs1...
"Certainly one of the most unique experiences I've tried in recent times." -VR Reviews www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUTp...
Now, a very important message from the patrons of Stellar Cafe. Get Stellar Cafe now on the Meta Quest Store: metaque.st/4lr5Hnp
Stellar Cafe is live on Meta Quest! 🚀 Huge thanks to our amazing partners: @livekit.io (real-time audio streaming + agent development platform) @deepgram.com (real-time speech-to-text) Google (LLM) Inworld TTS (real-time text-to-speech) Get Stellar Cafe on the Meta Quest Store metaque.st/4lr5Hnp
“I couldn't help but feel like I was peeking through some weird portal into a future where all of our NPCs are intelligent.” - Gaming Nexus www.gamingnexus.com/Article/1632...
“It really felt like I was holding an actual conversation. It is just wickedly impressive, and each robot stayed really true to who they were.” - A Wolf In VR www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNB-...
Welcome to Stellar Cafe, the coffee shop at the edge of the galaxy. Come on in and meet the locals, quirky robots with bizarre ambitions You might help a robot quit their job, or guest on their podcast. However you play, your voice steers the story. ✨NOW AVAILABLE on Meta Quest: metaque.st/4lr5Hnp
🎉Stellar Cafe is NOW AVAILABLE on Meta Quest! 🎉 The first VR game built entirely around your voice. No menus, no controllers, just real-time conversations and interactions. metaque.st/4lr5Hnp
✨Tomorrow is the big day, Stellar Cafe launches on Meta Quest. Charge your headset before bed tonight, and don't forget to leave cookies + synthetic milk for VISOR metaque.st/4lr5Hnp
🚨The design process behind VISOR - the menu you can talk to in Stellar Cafe! www.astrobeam.com/blog/visor-t...
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Stellar Cafe, a game built around voice-first input and unscripted AI conversations with NPCs, arrives next week on Quest. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/stellar-cafe...
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Stellar Cafe drops Dec 11. Freshly brewed chaos, served hot. Talk your way through the coffee shop at the edge of the galaxy. Pull up a seat and meet quirky robots with bizarre ambitions and a lot to say. Your voice steers the story and don’t forget to Wishlist! youtu.be/j4qBAIQvHNQ
Stellar Cafe drops Dec 11. Freshly brewed chaos, served hot. Talk your way through the coffee shop at the edge of the galaxy. Pull up a seat and meet quirky robots with bizarre ambitions and a lot to say. Your voice steers the story and don’t forget to Wishlist! youtu.be/j4qBAIQvHNQ
Check out UploadVR's Winter Showcase at 10am PT, No reason in particular…👀 showcase.uploadvr.com?ref=uploadvr...
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Join our Discord as we gear up to launch Stellar Cafe. Be the first to hear all the news and updates, get ready to drop your funniest moments and soon browse the hilarious stories from everyone's voice-driven interactions. discord.gg/CEPjHQWYhQ
Join our Discord as we gear up to launch Stellar Cafe. Be the first to hear all the news and updates, get ready to drop your funniest moments and soon browse the hilarious stories from everyone's voice-driven interactions. discord.gg/CEPjHQWYhQ
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$23 per hour/per user was the cost of our voice input system when we started AstroBeam. Fast forward to today, we can ship a paid title using it. Blog post on how we built our voice input system for the upcoming Stellar Cafe that’s not only cost-effective but fast! www.astrobeam.com/blog/at-the-...
Check out this new podcast on our upcoming game Stellar Cafe!
New episode! 🎙️ Today we are joined by @devinreimer.bsky.social, founder and CEO of @astrobeam.com, to talk about his upcoming VR game Stellar Cafe! Listen as we get to know Devin and learn more about Stellar Cafe! Link 👇 Video: youtu.be/OE6IgYA9G4k?... Audio: www.rufftalkvr.com/stellar-cafe...
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We have a new podcast episode dropping first thing tomorrow interviewing @devinreimer.bsky.social, Founder and CEO of @astrobeam.com, to talk about their upcoming VR game - Stellar Cafe! Stay tuned!
Our logo was on the Nasdaq Tower in Times Square today! Game Changers 2026! Very cool! Thanks to @lightspeedvp.bsky.social, @gamesbeat.bsky.social, and Nasdaq.
We’ve been selected as a 2026 Game Changer! A spotlight list of 25 startups driving innovation across AI, gaming, and interactive media, presented by @lightspeedvp.bsky.social @gamesbeat.bsky.social and Nasdaq. Read more here: lsvp.com/gamechangers...
“Stellar Cafe, I kind of dismissed it as a gimmick…after trying out the game for a short demo session, I’m going to hold up my hands and admit I was so wrong.” www.escapistmagazine.com/news-stellar...