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Linden Lab’s Sansar will take virtual worlds far beyond Second Life

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 17, 2016
5 min

Second Life is by far the most successful virtual world ever created. And with Sansar, the creators of Second Life at Linden Lab believe they...

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Oculus’ funding of Robo Recall nearly match what Epic Games spent on Gears of War

Posted byby Jason Wilson
December 17, 2016
2 min

Oculus is one of the most prolific stimulators of virtual reality content in the industry today. The Facebook-owned company has been funding VR games...

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2 min

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Watch us play Oculus Touch games like VR Sports Challenge and I Expect You to Die

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 17, 2016
1 min

I’m still digging the Oculus Touch controllers that Facebook’s VR subsidiary launched earlier this month, and that’s not only because they make me feel...

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Xbox One Elite Controller sales up 46% year-over-year in November

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 16, 2016
1 min

Microsoft’s premium controller is seeing a surge leading into the gift-giving holidays. The Xbox One Elite Controller saw its sales in November increase by almost...

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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Nintendo Switch specs and Super Mario Run hits mobile

Posted byby Mike Minotti
December 16, 2016
3 min

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Pokémon Go got more creatures (although not as many as some fans hoped for), Overwatch gets...

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3 min

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Epic’s Tim Sweeney: Be patient. The Metaverse will come. And it will be open.

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 16, 2016
10 min

I hear a lot of speeches. But Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games and a longtime graphics guru, stitched together the best vision...

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10 min

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The DeanBeat: The road ahead in VR and AR will have two steps forward, one step back

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 16, 2016
6 min

John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of...