Echo VR
Ready at Dawn built one of virtual reality's most convincing team sports, then Meta switched off every server and left its zero-gravity arenas unreachable.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A formally released multiplayer virtual-reality game comprising Echo Arena and Echo Combat.
Players propelled robotic bodies through zero gravity, passing a disc and using their physical movement to compete inside shared arenas.
Existence timeline
The zero-gravity sport reaches Oculus Rift players.
A team-combat mode expands the shared platform.
Echo VR reaches Meta's standalone headset audience.
Ready at Dawn sets a final server date.
All official matchmaking and play cease.
Recordings, tournaments and reverse-engineering efforts continue outside the service.
Why it ended
Ready at Dawn closed the servers on 1 August 2023, saying the studio needed to focus on its next project.
Last confirmed trace
Archived developer posts, tournament recordings, player footage and preservation projects document the final matches.
What it left behind
Its shutdown became a prominent example of a live-service game disappearing even when no close substitute preserved its embodied design.
How we classified it
The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.
Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.