Welcome to Stellar Cafe
AstroBeam has released its first VR experience, Stellar Cafe, which is now available for Meta Quest headsets for $14.99. The studio is focused on shaping the future of voice interaction, and this debut game uses natural speech and expressive hand tracking to create a new style of storytelling in virtual reality. The game turns socializing into an interactive experience as you meet quirky robots, solve their quirky problems, and serve space coffee in a casual sci-fi setting.
Created by AstroBeam founder Devin Reimer, known as the co-creator of Job Simulator, Stellar Cafe encourages players to speak naturally and act with simple gestures. You order drinks with your voice and greet characters with a wave of your hand. All while exploring each situation through dialogue shaped entirely by your own words. The robots you meet exhibit strange and charming scenarios, like helping one quit their job at a sprocket factory or joining another as the first human guest on their podcast. Each exchange moves forward as you choose, giving each session a personal rhythm.
The heart of Stellar Cafe is its sympathetic characters. Robot visitors rely on a powerful language model to help them follow context. They can remember details from the past and carry on a conversation smoothly and believably. This combination of real-time dialogue and intuitive hand tracking creates one of the most natural experiences in virtual reality.
Devin Reimer describes the goal: to make technology fade into the background so that interaction is simple. You speak as you would in everyday life, and the characters respond as if they are experiencing the present moment. The goal of Stellar Cafe is to create a virtual reality world in which the player and character can easily and continuously exchange information based entirely on voice and presence.
