Happy New Year! 🎉🥂 ✨ A new year is the perfect time for new goals, so I asked the patrons at #StellarCafe what they had planned for this orbit.

💫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

Happy Holidays!!!

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

🚨The reviews are in, players are loving Stellar Cafe 📈 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.

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...

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...

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...

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

$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!

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...

We’ve started sending out Stellar Cafe Beta builds for feedback. Very exciting milestone!

Stellar Cafe coverage on French news! youtu.be/TuEq9SUQ_zo?...

“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...

"It's a new era of VR gaming and a unique chapter in the history of the medium, as well, and I can't wait to be a part of it!" www.androidcentral.com/gaming/virtu...

The response to the announce of Stellar Cafe has been wonderful! Thank you! stellarcafe.com

Wonderful RoadToVR piece on Stellar Cafe: "...one of those rare experiences that feels like the future." www.roadtovr.com/stellar-cafe...

Great post about Stellar Cafe on GamesBeat! gamesbeat.com/astrobeam-re...

What if you could talk to Job Simulator's bots naturally? That's the promise of Stellar Cafe from AstroBeam. Read our impressions here: www.uploadvr.com/stellar-cafe...

Announcing Stellar Cafe, the first VR game built entirely around your voice! Wishlist on Meta Quest today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti38... www.meta.com/experiences/...

😲 Stellar Cafe uses your voice as the controller! 😲 🤖 Solve robot's problems in an intergalactic cafe 🗣️ Speak to NPCs - they'll talk back using LLMs 🖐️ Utilizing Owlchemy Labs' hand tracking tech 🥽 Coming to Quest in 2025 Watch the reveal at VRGS: buff.ly/iCpfR1V Wishlist: buff.ly/gjRdqRp

Tune in, show starts soon!

You should check out the VR Games Showcase tomorrow for...reasons :)

Includes quotes from me

I was recently on the Naavik Gaming Podcast chatting about VR/XR and smart NPCs with Ed Saxton (Schell Games), hosted by Sam Distaso (Unity) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eajl...

AstroBeam is at DICE! Let us know if you want to chat about the fun challenges of building conversational XR games powered by LLMs.

CES panel complete! It was great to be joined with the other panelist, Burcu Hakguder, Emilee Helm, and Haval Othman and the moderator @deantak.bsky.social

AstroBeam is at CES! Drop a line if you want to talk about the future of LLM powered NPCs!