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Our tech start up, like a baby turning two, is beginning to show serious signs of independence and identity. Continue reading on Medium » Read the full article…
Read MoreOur tech start up, like a baby turning two, is beginning to show serious signs of independence and identity. Continue reading on Medium » Read the full article…
Read MoreGUEST: After an initial frenzy of interest in virtual reality due to Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus, investors and startups alike faced a “VR winter.” This was a difficult period of time in which consumer adoption of VR was slow, funding dried up, and startups had to get creative to survive the lean times. Is it… Read the full article…
Read MoreApple showed off a new augmented reality game at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote event today, and the new version of its AR platform, dubbed ARKit 2.0, now enables multiplayer gaming and spectating within AR. ARKit 2.0 and a new AR file format, Universal Scene Description (USDZ), will debut later this year and enable… Read the full article…
Read MoreGUEST: Last week I will joined hundreds of commercial VR and AR experts in London to participate in VR World 2018. The two-day conference featured sessions from industry leaders pioneering immersive technology in such fields as manufacturing, automotive, entertainment, healthcare, and many others. One of the benefits of bringing together VR and AR…Read More Powered… Read the full article…
Read MoreWe kept putting off recording the latest episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast this week because more news kept happening. But we finally committed, and that’s when Ubisoft decided it was time to confirm Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey and someone leaked a few Nintendo Switch surprises (Fortnite!). Oh, well. This episode has almost all of…Read More… Read the full article…
Read MoreI’ve written a few times in this newsletter about various “pipelines” for startup activity — universities, coworking spaces, and local corporations. But one pipeline I haven’t touched on yet is local meetup groups. Meetup groups can be a powerful way to bring together a wide variety of people who are interested in startups or a… Read the full article…
Read MoreThe augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets have seen their ups and downs, but Qualcomm remains unabashedly convinced that they’re an untapped goldmine. Citing research from IDC, the company expects the install base for standalone headsets like the HTC Vive Focus and Oculus Go to top 186 million by 2023. That is one of the… Read the full article…
Read MoreI spent today watching Bethesda broadcast a static shot of the Pip-Boy mascot from the Fallout franchise standing in front of a TV that says “please stand by.” I’m not alone. Tens of thousands of other fans of Bethesda’s games did as well — at this moment, more than 100,000 are still watching the livestream… Read the full article…
Read MoreLG engineers are using artificial intelligence to reduce the dizziness and motion sickness experienced by some virtual reality (VR) headset users, according to Business Korea. LG subsidiary LG Display partnered with Sogang University in Korea to develop technology that cuts down on motion-to-photon-latency and motion blur, two common sources of nau… Read the full article…
Read MoreANALYSIS: When Sony executive John Tsuyoshi Kodera told investors this week that the PlayStation 4 is entering the “final phase of its life cycle,” there were two ways to parse the news. You could disbelieve it — it’s a mistake, an overstatement, or likely to change — or assume that Sony was dead serious and already pl…Read More… Read the full article…
Read MoreFirst Contact Entertainment is putting the finishing touches on its virtual reality first-person shooter, Firewall: Zero Hour. It pits four human players against four humans in multiplayer first-person shooter matches on the PlayStation VR. Coming later this year, the game can be played with a PSVR Aim controller or a standard gamepad. I gave it a…Read More Powered… Read the full article…
Read MoreUpdated at 5:07 p.m. Pacific time on May 25: PSN is back up and running. You may have trouble getting into Fortnite and other games on your PlayStation 4 because PlayStation Network is down as Memorial Day Weekend begins in the United States. Gamers on social media are complaining about connectivity errors on the PSN… Read the full article…
Read MoreHTC’s standalone VR headset Vive Focus launched in China last year, and it’s getting some neat software upgrades ahead of its anticipated global release. Just announced at the 2018 Vive Ecosystem Conference, the Vive Focus System Update 2.0 enables the headset to link up with HTC smartphones, deliver longer battery life, and continue to…Read More… Read the full article…
Read MoreThe competition between AMD, Nvidia, and Intel has led to a lot of innovation in the Windows laptop space. The slim-style ultrabooks are better than ever thanks to devices like Dells’ XPS13, but it’s the gaming and workstation notebooks that are seeing the biggest leap in 2018. And Acer is one of the manufacturers taking… Read the full article…
Read MoreSoon you won’t need flimsy red-and-blue glasses to enjoy 3D movies. Red Digital Cinema Camera Company is distilling its Hollywood know-how into something pocket-sized with its Hydrogen One mobile phone. The Android device will be debuting through Verizon and AT&T this summer, and its major differentiator is its unique holographic display.… Read the full article…
Read MoreGUEST: With both ARKit and ARCore available to the public, augmented reality is now enabled on over 500 million devices. There are over 2,000 AR apps available in iOS App Store and another 200-plus on Google Play. With few breakout hits, many are wondering what the killer use cases for AR will be. We can… Read the full article…
Read MoreVisual novel developers who have mature-themed games on Steam are reeling from what developer MangaGamer is calling Valve’s “sudden and abrupt policy shift.” Valve, which owns and operates the Steam PC gaming service, has notified MangaGamer and certain other developers that they have until the end of the month to remove pornograp…Read More Powered by… Read the full article…
Read MoreMicrosoft unveiled its Xbox Adaptive Controller today, an accessory for the game console for those with limited mobility to play games. It makes games accessible to a wider audience, and that’s what drew the attention of Xbox head Phil Spencer, who was ultimately responsible for greenlighting the project. The controller enables people who don…Read More… Read the full article…
Read MoreGfycat has been a master of creating 2D animated GIFs, and now it is taking that content into virtual reality with 360Loop. The first example comes from Paramount Pictures’ new Tom Cruise movie, Mission: Impossible — Fallout. Gfycat‘s new media format is like a GIF, the usually silly moving images associated with internet memes in…Read More Powered… Read the full article…
Read MoreSome observers flinched when Verizon said it doesn’t care about the pending merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, but AT&T CEO John Donovan offered a more nuanced and optimistic explanation of the same sentiment: 5G has created opportunities for all of the industry’s top players to compete in different ways that are positive for consumers.…Read More… Read the full article…
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