StarVR reveals its next-gen virtual reality headset with eye-tracking
The new StarVR head-mounted display debuted at the SIGGRAPH 2018 technology event in Vancouver today. The StarVR One, as it is called, adds a...
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth wows with city of Mayan-inspired Trolls and dinos
World of Warcraft’s newest expansion, Battle for Azeroth, is finally out. That means the race is on to reach the new level cap of...
Call of Duty’s Blackout battle royale mode gets a beta September 10
We’ve known since May that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will have a battle royale mode similar to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Fortnite, and...
Spatial launches Kickstarter for holographic mixed reality gaming device
Spatial is launching a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for a new kind of mixed reality device that uses holographic projection to overlay animations on top...
Sumo Group acquires Dear Esther studio The Chinese Room
The U.K.-based Sumo Group announced today that it has acquired independent studio The Chinese Room from its founders, Dan Pinchbeck and Jessica Curry. The Chinese...
Visor analyzes your Overwatch game in real time for instantaneous advice
Visor has raised $4.7 million for its artificial intelligence system that analyzes Overwatch gameplay in real time and offers instant advice on how gamers...
Outward proves you don’t need crunch to make a massive RPG
Outward is an ambitious, open-world RPG designed by a team that’s a third of the size you’d expect. It’s dynamic, systems-heavy, and you can play the whole thing cooperatively and in splitscreen. Only 10 people are designing it.
Nvidia will ship its first ray-tracing Quadro graphics chip in Q4
Nvidia announced its first graphics chips that take advantage of its new Turing-based computer graphics architecture, the Quadro RTX series. The new chips for...
Nvidia unveils real-time ray tracing Turing graphics architecture
Nvidia said it “reinvented computer graphics” with the unveiling of its Nvidia Turing graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture. The architecture will be the foundation for...
Understanding the power of the avatar will be essential for VR’s future
Digital self-expression has evolved rapidly throughout the past couple of decades, particularly thanks to the gaming industry and strange new social worlds like Second...