Overwatch League shows esports marketing works
If you’re wondering how massive esports has become, just follow the money. The livestreaming platform Twitch paid $90 million for the rights to the...
Transform 2019: Hear from the movers and shakers in AI
Artificial intelligence is transforming business and offering significant strategic and practical opportunities, from natural language processing and smart speech to IoT and edge computing....
Lenovo unveils world’s first foldable PC, coming in 2020
At its Accelerate 2019 event in Orlando today, Lenovo previewed “the world’s first foldable PC.” The new product doesn’t have a name, price tag,...
Adding audio data helps AI navigate 3D mazes
Sight is the sense on which humans chiefly rely to navigate the world, but sound might be just as important — it’s been shown...
AR/VR’s $80 billion-plus market could split before it consolidates
Some in the AR/VR industry see it converging into a singularity of spatial computing in one magical device, but mobile AR, smartglasses and VR...
Mixed reality and the art world: an unlikely but ideal pairing
Back in January I explored the rising popularity of impact investing, a trend that I think at its essence is all about us as a...
Mobile VR’s dying gasps mean new life for standalone and tethered VR
Even if you were expecting this news, the latest research confirms it: “High-performance” VR platforms are increasing in popularity while “mobile VR” is declining. Users,...
IDC: High-end VR grew 60% in 2018, users have smartwatch-level satisfaction
While interest in smartphone-dependent VR devices has cooled off, the high-performance VR market has continued to grow, IDC says in a new report, as tethered and...
AI is becoming esports’ secret weapon
Machine learning is changing the $1 billion esports market, which is projected to reach $1.8 billion by 2022. Computer scientists have made great strides...
Imagination offers ray tracing IP ahead of Apple’s 5G iPhone launch
Graphics chip designer Imagination Technologies may have been shut out of providing GPUs for Apple’s iPhones and iPads, forcing the company to sell itself...