Behind the Magic Leap and Weta Workshop alliance
Little by little, Magic Leap is pulling back the veils on the mixed reality technology that it has been developing since 2011. The Florida...
Ubisoft researcher takes a bird’s-eye view of tech, games, and entertainment
Lidwine Sauer is paid to be one of Ubisoft’s big thinkers. She’s the director of insights and trends for Ubisoft’s Strategic Innovation Lab, a...
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 845 heralds powerful standalone VR/AR headsets with eye and body tracking
Qualcomm has revealed its Snapdragon 845 Xtended Reality (XR) platform for both mobile virtual reality and augmented reality mobile headsets. The new platform will...
Satoshipowered.ai wants VR and blockchain to link up
Game developers are looking for more ways to get players to spend money on in-game purchases, and new developer and crowdpublisher Satoshipowered.ai thinks blockchain-based...
Moss’s PSVR fairy-tale adventure launches February 27
Polyarc is ready to put its virtual reality storybook to print. The studio originally intended to release its adorable VR adventure game Moss during the...
SK Telecom will demo 5G social VR, self-driving cars, and hologram AI at MWC 2018
South Korea’s largest mobile provider — SK Telecom — announced today that it will debut “social virtual reality” and multiple 5G demonstrations, including “hologram AI,” at its 2018...
The DeanBeat: High Fidelity takes us dancing in a virtual reality club
I’m looking forward to Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film based on Ernest Cline’s virtual reality sci-fi novel Ready Player One. In one scene in that 2011...
Gree’s VR VC fund rebrands to add AR and mixed reality
Gree VR Capital, a venture investment division of Japan’s mobile game publisher Gree, has completed its first fund for virtual reality investments and is...
World of Tanks will roll into VR thanks to Wargaming and VRTech fund partnership
Wargaming’s multiplayer hit World of Tanks will soon be larger-than-life — the developer is partnering with the virtual reality venture fund VRTech to form a...
AR glasses have learned from Glassholes
Despite the ambitious portrayals of the future in TV shows and movies predating it, few of the gadgets that imaginative writers dreamed of exist....