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“We want the digital world to bend to your physical life, your real emotional life as a person, and we don’t want you to bend to… Continue reading on Medium » Read the full article…
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Read MoreAdshir is announcing that it can demonstrate the holy grail of computer graphics: real-time ray tracing on mobile devices. That means that it can show physically accurate computer animations in real time on mobile devices, such as tablets and smartphones. Ray tracing has been possible in high-end computer-animated movies, such as Pixar films, but t…Read… Read the full article…
Read MoreGUEST: The VR sphere is fascinated by haptics and the notion that “feeling” is the ultimate immersive experience. Take the recently funded kickstarter for the Holosuit that is promising a full body haptic experience as an example of just how fixated the VR world is with more haptics. As a result, the gaming industry and… Read the full article…
Read MoreAltspaceVR has released tools to let users create their own sharable spaces in virtual reality. It uses a drag-and-drop interface, allowing you to place objects in a 3D space using AltspaceVR-compatible headsets — including Oculus Go and Gear VR. It’s one of the first major upgrades since Microsoft acquired the social VR platform If you…Read More… Read the full article…
Read MoreMagic Leap is taking orders for its first product, the $2,295 Magic Leap One Creator Edition augmented reality glasses. It superimposes computer-animated imagery on the world to augment what you can see with your own eyes. CEO Rony Abovitz has been waiting for this day for a long time — since he started Magic Leap… Read the full article…
Read MoreWe’ve only had 5 days between recordings of the GamesBeat Decides podcast, so we weren’t expecting to have a lot to talk about on this week’s episode. That was our first mistake. The GamesBeat Decides crew has spent most of the last week playing Dead Cells, and that’s what they spend the top half of… Read the full article…
Read MoreAs CEO of CableLabs, Phil McKinney’s job is to dream big. He gets paid by cable TV providers around the world to do research on the future and how to build the networks that the future will require, particularly to serve the needs of education. Today, CableLabs is releasing a short film called “The Near… Read the full article…
Read MoreThe founders at Survios are true believers in virtual reality, and they’ve poured a lot of effort into the hit VR games Raw Data and Sprint Vector. Now they’re switching from games to something more like an immersive music experience with Electronauts. The VR app will enable music fans to remix, compose, and perform their… Read the full article…
Read MoreJune was a big month for the video game industry thanks to the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show. That’s the event that is supposed to get people excited about the future of games … and then everyone went out and bought the Nintendo Entertainment System. The NES Classic was the top-selling console in June in… Read the full article…
Read MoreGUEST: While the gaming industry grossed over $108 billion globally in 2017, the digital gaming landscape in India was marked at $890 million which is roughly one percent of the global share. But the Indian gaming industry will develop rapidly to touch double digit growth in a year. In the recently concluded CII’s International Conference… Read the full article…
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Google has hired Richard Marks, a former senior research engineer who helped create Sony’s PlayStation VR virtual reality headset and its PlayStation Move controllers, GamesBeat has learned. If there’s any sign that Google is up to something in the gaming business, the hiring of Marks is a big clue. In January 2018, Google hi…Read… Read the full article…
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Read MoreFull-body tracking was once the stuff of movie studios and theme parks, but thanks to the proliferation of low-cost motion sensors, gyroscopes, and accelerometers, it’s finally beginning to trickle down to the consumer space. Trackstrap sells a product that works with the HTC Vive virtual reality (VR) headset, as does Perception Neuron. And f…Read More… Read the full article…
Read MoreJeff Minter has made great games for decades, but his reboot of Atari’s 1980 arcade game Tempest made him an international icon — and gave Atari a killer app for the “64-bit” Jaguar console. Now that Atari itself is rebooting, Minter has returned to give the company a crown jewel in the form of Tempest… Read the full article…
Read MoreGUEST: The following is an excerpt from Defying Reality: The Inside Story of the Virtual Reality Revolution by David M. Ewalt. After the bright lights of Vegas and overstimulation of the Consumer Electronics Show, I was looking forward to a change of pace. So at the end of January 2016, I flew to Salt Lake… Read the full article…
Read MoreAUSTIN, JULY 24 — Today FarBridge, creators of augmented and virtual reality software for games and beyond, announces Kevin Robertson as… Continue reading on Medium » Read the full article…
Read MoreVirtual reality helped me appreciate the art of Burning Man. Inside a VR exhibit, I stood next to a statue of a woman, and the 55-feet-tall work of art towered over me as I stood on the sands of a virtual space. Intel, Linden Lab’s Sansar Studios, and the Smithsonian are revealing today a VR… Read the full article…
Read MoreEver wanted to be a superhero? Better yet, how about a Marvel superhero? With Marvel Powers United VR you can do just that. This promising new VR game lets you step into the shoes of your favorite comic book characters and team up with friends to save the world over and over again. What is… Read the full article…
Read MoreWhen I played Megalith at E3, it was a little bit of a revelation for me. Intuitively I knew that hero shooter-style games, or rather action games that pit players against each other in an arena and let them pick from a host of characters each with vastly different powers, would be a good fit for… Read the full article…
Read MoreWhen the blockbuster film Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom debuted on June 22, it came with a bunch of Jurassic World games. Normally, based on video game industry history, that would be cause for alarm, as most movie games suck. But in this case, the games are turning out to be both profitable and a boost… Read the full article…
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