Ultrahaptics uses ultrasound so you can feel things in VR
The problem with virtual reality is that it’s never quite immersive enough. While the visuals and sound make you feel like you’re wandering in...
Blippar releases its AR and computer vision tech for third-party developers
Blippar has made a name for itself in augmented reality apps, and now it wants to take that technology to a broader market. The...
AMD ships three Polaris-based Radeon Pro chips for game and VR developers
Advanced Micro Devices is announcing that its Radeon Pro workstation chips are shipping as early as this week to customers who build high-end graphics...
PlayStation 4 Pro delivers the 4K content — but 1080p-TV owners shouldn’t upgrade yet
What you won’t like You need a very specific TV The 4K television market is a mess. Standards are starting to clear up the...
Tobii to raise $50 million to bring its eye-tracking smarts to VR and smartphones
Swedish eye-tracking company Tobii has announced plans to invest in “large-scale initiatives” involving smartphones and virtual reality and is seeking to raise SEK 400...
How Next Games stopped ad fraud in The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land
You could say that a lot of the users in The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land mobile game were zombies. That’s because they just...
Xbox One chainsaws all comers as consoles crush mobile game ad spending in October
Machine Zone has a convoy, but the consoles have the big numbers GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, which measures TV advertising in real-time, to...
$69 Pocket Chip DIY computer has 3D acceleration to run Quake III
The $69 Pocket C.H.I.P. computer has gotten a software update that enables 3D acceleration on the ARM-based device. Now it can run games like Quake...
The 6 stages of a free-to-play social gamer
Social-game developers have a tough challenge trying to keep people coming back to their title for as long as possible, but no one strategy is...
The season of assassination tourism comes to a close with final Hitman episode
The makers of Hitman at Danish developer IO Interactive pioneered a new model for releasing a major video game with six episodes released over...