Beat Saber will debut on the Oculus Quest wireless VR headset
Beat Saber is the biggest hit among virtual reality games, and Beat Games is announcing today that the sword-fighting music game will be part...
HTC Vive marketing exec leaves VR for Micron
Rahul Sandil, a former marketing executive at HTC’s Vive virtual reality division, is jumping ship to Micron Technology, where he will serve as head...
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite first look — Warner Bros. and Niantic show off long-awaited mobile game
Niantic and Warner Bros.’ WB Games studio showed off the first gameplay for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, a mobile game that is based on...
The DeanBeat: Our dream event with Atari father Nolan Bushnell, Respawn’s Vince Zampella and Spider-Man dude Ted Price
I’ve been dreaming about putting on a great game industry event for a long time. We’ve been doing our GamesBeat conferences for a decade...
Nintendo VR? Yes. Cardboard Labo VR? No thanks
Back in 2014, Google debuted Cardboard, a basic virtual reality viewer made from $5 worth of parts. At a time when standalone VR headsets...
Nintendo announces VR kit for the Switch
Nintendo is turning its Switch console into a virtual reality headset. And it’s doing so with a little help from its Labo cardboard interactive...
Qualcomm’s 5G XR Viewers will stop the wave of mediocre AR headsets
Companies have used the term “extended reality” (XR) to describe both virtual reality and augmented reality hardware, but consumers think of VR and AR...
Tim Sweeney’s 2 minutes onstage at HoloLens 2 event says a lot about AR openness
One of the bigger surprises at Microsoft’s introduction of HoloLens 2 was the short appearance by Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, a veteran critic...
Microsoft unveils the $3,500 HoloLens 2 AR headset built for comfort and immersion
Microsoft has officially unveiled the second incarnation of its HoloLens mixed reality headset. Presenting to a packed auditorium at MWC 2019 in Barcelona, Microsoft...
Lego Hidden Side uses ‘haunted’ toys to advance AR on Android and iOS
Though Apple and Google both improved their augmented reality tools for developers last year, AR didn’t have a particularly strong 2018, as consumers largely...