Survios is an American virtual reality game developer and software publisher based in Los Angeles, California.
[7][8] In March 2012, motivated by a shared vision of what VR home entertainment can and should be—active and social—University of Southern California students Nathan Burba, James Iliff, Graham Matuszewski and Alex Silkin launched Project Holodeck.
[9][10][11] In 2013, the students officially founded Survios and began demoing its first virtual reality project, Zombies on the Holodeck, a noir, horde-based survival shooter demoed on a prototype Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD) that used a variety of tracking devices for improved immersion, including PlayStation Move controllers and Razer Hydra controllers from Sixense.
The game features a variety of weapons for players to use against hordes of robotic enemies and touted interactive environments and destructible objects.
[14][9] Prior to release, the media praised Raw Data for its immersive gameplay experience, which TechCrunch hailed as "Perhaps the most advanced first person shooter in VR.
"[15][9] After months of event demos and alpha tests, Survios released Raw Data on Steam Early Access for HTC Vive in July 2016.
The studio also announced that it partnered with theaters and retailers to host VR Pods under the codename "Tesseract," which were designed for easy and social gameplay experiences: players can play the game as they see it, however the glass projects allow spectators to see the action as well.
[23][9] In May 2019, Survios unveiled its new project for that year called Battlewake, a pirate-themed naval combat game akin to Twisted Metal where players engage in fights on the high seas.
The partnership between Survios and AMC resulted in The Walking Dead: Onslaught, a VR game set in the universe of the TV Show starring Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon.