Oculus may have filed patent for Santa Cruz headset’s fabric wrap
From the “in mildly interesting and painfully specific patents from big VR companies” file: Oculus seems to have patented the fabric that will wrap...
Augmented reality sex app arrives on Android with animated human bodies
Sex has always pushed the edges of technology, from VHS videotapes to virtual reality. And now it may also push the envelope for augmented...
PlayStation swings to first place in gaming industry’s most-seen TV ads ranking
Sony’s PlayStation brand web-slings into the lead when it comes to the most-viewed TV commercials for the gaming industry. It beats out previous chart-topper...
Coco VR: How Magnopus brings Pixar’s magic to life
“Pixar originally didn’t want to do the project [Coco VR] because they didn’t think we could hit the quality bar that they found acceptable,”...
Blind review: A puzzler that leaves you in the dark
I’d love to tell you that Blind’s infuriating puzzles are frustrating for the right reasons, but I can’t. Tiny Bull Studios’ efforts to put...
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....
How Smart Brain Aging hopes to hold off dementia with brain training games
My 85-year-old mother has dementia, a memory loss disease that affects about 60 million people in the U.S. And so I can relate to...
Mario Kart VR will soon toss turtle shells in North America
Your next visit to the seat of democracy in the United States could include a side-journey into another universe where tossing banana peels and...
Battlefield V open beta results: DICE will scale back supply stations, improve vision
Electronic Arts’ DICE studio said that Battlefield V’s open beta test drew players who poured tens of millions of hours into the game. The...