Pokémon Go searches on Google down tenfold from July peak
Summer is over, and as young people turn their focus to homework and the sun spends less time in the sky, interest in the massive...
Signia Venture Partners raises $85 million fund for early stage tech companies
Signia Venture Partners is announcing today that it has raised a second fund — totaling $85 million — to invest in early-stage technology companies....
VR/AR’s biggest obstacle: Lack of content
What was once nothing more than a pipe dream for science fiction enthusiasts is now a commercially released product, as virtual reality devices are readily...
The DeanBeat: What Pokémon Go has done for augmented reality
For more than five years, Vuforia has been selling augmented reality. More than 30,000 apps have used the Vuforia platform for AR, which is...
Pokémon Go is ‘the most successful mobile launch in history,’ SuperData says
The Pokémon franchise scored a double victory in the month of July with the launch of the mobile game Pokémon Go, as the augmented reality...
5 amazing HoloLens videos show the power of AR and VR
Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen some really impressive demonstrations of the capabilities of Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed reality all-in-one headset. The system costs...
Uncorporeal and RadicalMedia team up to capture human forms in VR
Uncorporeal Systems came out of stealth today to announce a partnership with media company RadicalMedia to capture human images for the purpose of creating...
How D&D’s boss sees the role-playing game working in augmented reality
Virtual reality puts you into a computer-generated world. Augmented reality adds a layer on top of your world. And AR feels like a better...
The accidental history of Niantic’s Pokémon Go, as told by John Hanke
John Hanke put in his time evangelizing location-based gaming and augmented reality. He spent six years refining Ingress as the first AR game from...
Pokémon Go developer tests big changes to tracking with ‘Nearby’ and ‘Sightings’
I know. You hate Pokémon Go’s broken tracker, but it looks like the developer has some crucial changes coming soon. Developer Niantic is sending out...