Oculus Link beta hands-on: How Quest might kill Rift S for wired PC VR
It’s easy to see the almost limitless sales potential of a VR headset that can operate fully on its own or switch to become a...
DeepMind’s MuZero teaches itself how to win at Atari, chess, shogi, and Go
In a paper published in the journal Science late last year, Google parent company Alphabet’s DeepMind detailed AlphaZero, an AI system that could teach...
Avidly Reads Board Games excerpt: Pandemic Mobile saved Pandemic … from me
Reprinted from Avidly Reads Board Games by Eric Thurm with permission from NYU Press, © 2019 by New York University. A good game of Pandemic is...
Console-free gaming may start with the cloud — but will need the edge
The video gaming world is bracing for a cloud-based, console-less future. By ditching expensive PCs and consoles, and making games accessible on the devices...
Oculus releases Link USB cable specs and PC VR beta software for Quest
Absent official sales numbers, there are still plenty of reasons to believe that the standalone Oculus Quest VR headset has been a qualified hit...
There’s serious potential in serious games
The world is being transformed by play. Serious games, or games that have a purpose beyond entertainment (not games that require serious effort to...
Researchers show off TouchVR palm and finger haptic feedback device
Current-generation VR controllers are fairly limited in enabling users to “feel” virtual objects; bow strings vibrate with haptic shivers, while guns kick back as...
Humankind preview: The end of Civilization?
At first glance, Humankind seems familiar, perhaps a little too much so. Start a game, and there’s your initial tribe on a beautiful hex-based...
Beyond banning: More ways to protect your game from exploits (VB Live)
Presented by Akamai Game developers not only have to think about security from the start, but make sure it doesn’t affect game performance, either....
Apple delaying AR glasses until 2022 would be bad for XR, but no shock
Years ago, an Apple loyalist claimed the company was being unfairly criticized for delaying products that had been widely reported to be on the...