Amazon starts letting Alexa developers sell extra lives in voice games
Amazon today announced that developers with Alexa skills games can now sell Echo device owners things like extra lives or special powers in role-playing...
Augmented reality can foster empathy — and games can take advantage
BUZZZZZ! THUMP. Down goes another tree in virtual reality. The sole witness of this was the participant in our VR study who used a...
Finding the right metrics for evaluating your bot
Here’s the good news for companies building AI-powered virtual agents (aka bots) for customer service: Research from Accenture suggests that 80 percent of support...
VR’s missing ingredient: FOMO
In over two years as CEO of Admix, an AR/VR company, I have attended well over 100 events, pitched investors, and given countless interviews....
Google is bringing support for all Android apps to Daydream VR
Google is continuing to push its Daydream VR platform forward, the company announced today, as it’s making moves that expand the app support and...
Contest alert! Enter the “Open Your World Just Cause 4 Giveaway” now
Presented by Intel The Just Cause 4 launch is just a couple of months away, and it’s going to be a doozy. Rico Rodriguez...
Wearable Tap Strap keyboard now lets Windows users type in VR
Tap Systems released a unique “wearable keyboard” last year, turning five connected rings and their accompanying software into a Bluetooth typing and control solution....
Fraunhofer says microdisplays will end VR motion sickness and headaches
A small but significant fraction of people experience motion sickness or headaches when using virtual reality headsets, an issue Fraunhofer believes can be remedied with...
Google launches final preview of Flutter, its Android and iOS mobile app SDK
At Google Developer Days China today, Google launched the final developer preview of Flutter, the company’s open source mobile UI framework that helps developers...
Valve debuts Knuckles EV3 controllers, boosting battery before release
Valve has debuted yet another developer-only version of its Knuckles controllers, with many small improvements that users will appreciate -- at some point.