Game pioneers Jason Rubin and Ted Price discuss the lessons of early VR games Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 26, 2017 5 min Ted Price and Jason Rubin were pioneers at the start of the console video game business. Price started Insomniac Games in 1994, making games,... Continue Reading 5 min
How Magic Leap’s gaming wizard sees the future of mixed reality games Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 19, 2017 4 min Graeme Devine is one of the wizards of gaming, having started at age 14 in the heyday of Atari in the 1970s. He brought... Continue Reading 4 min
Magic Leap, the virtual reality backlash and the arc of technology Posted byby Jason Wilson March 19, 2017 3 min Magic Leap has drawn more than $1.4 billion in investment. There’s also some troubling reports regarding demos and delays that are getting a lot... Continue Reading 3 min
Two Bit Circus combines VR and motion simulator to make you feel vertigo on a skyscraper Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 18, 2017 2 min Two Bit Circus showed off a demo that conveyed just how real you could make virtual reality feel. Staged at the Experiential Technology Conference, the... Continue Reading 2 min
Gold Club SF VR ushers in realistic virtual reality for strip clubs Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 12, 2017 7 min Daniel Dilallo was back at the Game Developers Conference a couple of weeks ago, but it wasn’t to show off a new Guitar Hero and Call... Continue Reading 7 min
How VR startups can survive the slow growth of 2017 Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 12, 2017 21 min While the throngs were attending the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we had our own GamesBeat event nearby at a breakfast sponsored by... Continue Reading 21 min
CloudGate Studio lets you kick a dinosaur in VR with HTC’s Vive Tracker Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 11, 2017 3 min I must apologize in advance to the society for the prevention of cruelty to dinosaurs. In a recent demo of CloudGate Studio‘s Island 459... Continue Reading 3 min
Fantastic Contraption brings its puzzling gameplay to the PSVR in April Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 10, 2017 2 min Fantastic Contraption was one of the more creative virtual reality games that debuted last year on the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift VR... Continue Reading 2 min
Farpoint is shaping up to be a fun shooter on Sony’s PSVR Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 10, 2017 3 min First-person shooter games are one of the best genres for virtual reality, as the games become much more realistic and immersive when you are... Continue Reading 3 min
Linden Lab teases the VR world of Sansar Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 7, 2017 2 min Sansar is coming soon, and that means you may be able to live in virtual reality soon. Linden Lab‘s Sansar virtual reality world is debuting... Continue Reading 2 min