Google’s ARCore Depth API enables AR depth maps and occlusion with one camera
Android augmented reality is about to take some nice steps forward today, as Google is adding a major new feature to its ARCore toolkit...
How Small Giant Games got acquired by Zynga and lived to tell the tale
Zynga’s acquisition of Finland’s Small Giant Games last year represented a triumph for the surging Finnish mobile gaming studio as well as another sign...
How to keep your online game running and bug-free
Today’s game consoles offer functionalities — such as platform crossplay — that are something of a miracle. Because every game runs differently, especially across...
Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB excerpt — “Chairman of the TBD”
GamesBeat is publishing this exclusive excerpt of Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB. Read Part 1 here. To help commemorate its 25th anniversary,...
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit underlined the risks of relying on partners
From my perspective, attending this year’s Snapdragon Tech Summit was all but mandatory for a journalist covering 5G: It offered the very first opportunity to...
Facebook’s Hanabi-playing AI achieves state-of-the-art results
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) says it’s created the latest AI to achieve state-of-the-art performance when playing the card game Hanabi. The AI system achieves...
Qualcomm interview: Snapdragon XR’s future, from wired to 5G, VR to AR
Day three of Qualcomm’s 2019 Snapdragon Tech Summit is a big one for mixed reality — VR, AR, and XR — thanks to the...
Niantic and Qualcomm will build AR glasses for world-scale games
Fresh off today’s announcement of the Snapdragon XR2 mobile platform, Qualcomm has revealed an impressively ambitious early partner for its latest mixed reality effort:...
Unwrapping the secrets of seasonal content
The holiday season is imminent, and it’s another marker in the year where retailers, service providers, and other industries tailor their offerings to fit...
Qualcomm details Snapdragon 865 and 765, promises devices in Q1 2020
After yesterday’s announcement of names and bare concept outlines for its upcoming Snapdragon 865 and 765 mobile platforms, Qualcomm today detailed how the upcoming...