MonkeyMedia’s BodyNav lets you navigate VR without getting sick
Motion sickness is one of the challenges holding back virtual reality from reaching larger audiences. And MonkeyMedia, a small tech firm in Austin, Texas,...
8th Wall raises $8 million for AR platform that works across most smartphones
8th Wall announced that it has received $8 million in venture capital funding for its augmented reality developer platform. The funding will help the company...
Pokémon Go studio Niantic acquires AR firm Escher Reality
Niantic Labs announced today that it has acquired Escher Reality, an augmented reality and computer vision startup that’s building technology for persistent, cross-platform, multiuser augmented reality...
Hollywood’s Skydance Interactive doubles down on VR for the long term
David Ellison, son of Oracle founder and billionaire Larry Ellison, started his own Hollywood entertainment studio in 2010. Skydance has made feature films including...
The DeanBeat: What to expect from CES 2018 — the stupid and the good
I’m expanding my horizons from games to tech next week as I head off to Las Vegas for CES 2018, the big tech trade...
Meta partners with Ultrahaptics and ZeroLight for touch in AR
Meta is adding another dimension to its augmented reality experiences by incorporating haptic feedback. To that end, it has partnered with Ultrahaptics and ZeroLight, and...
Drop is a VR productivity environment for HTC Vive
Drop Software Inc. wants to change the way people access information in virtual reality. Its flagship VR title, Drop, provides a 360-degree environment that...
The DeanBeat: 10 wildly inaccurate and predictable predictions for gaming in 2018
The ritual has arrived again. It’s time for me to make wildly inaccurate predictions about the future of games. This is always embarrassing for...
Magic Leap CEO interview: Indoor augmented reality is the first step
Rony Abovitz has been dreaming about a new way of seeing the world since he started Magic Leap in 2011. He raised $1.9 billion in...
Magic Leap says it will ship its first augmented reality glasses in 2018
Magic Leap has come out of hiding. After several years of rumors and $1.9 billion in funding, the Florida company unveiled its Magic Leap...