Game makers applaud Apple’s support for AR and VR
Apple surprised the emerging industries of augmented reality and virtual reality with broad support for the technologies at its Worldwide Developer Conference in San...
ManoMotion uses a single smartphone camera to capture your hand gestures for virtual reality
Virtual reality makes you feel like you’re in another world. But as soon as you try to use your hands, the illusion breaks. That’s...
Edgybees mashes up video games and real drones for a futuristic new racer
While Amazon is busy figuring out infrastructure for its Prime Air drone empire, augmented reality startup Edgybees has launched Drone Prix AR, an AR racing game...
Transformers roll out into VR in China
Hasbro and Dan Mintz’s Hollywood film studio DMG Entertainment are launching interactive Transformers virtual reality and augmented reality centers in China — a nation where...
MindMaze offers VR treatment for stroke victims in the U.S.
Swiss startup MindMaze, which raised $100 million in funding, has launched its MindMaze Pro virtual reality treatment for stroke recovery patients in the U.S....
The DeanBeat: GamesBeat Summit conversations on the Metaverse, AR’s future, and Hollywood envy
We just hosted our third annual GamesBeat Summit at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, Calif. It was a beautiful place and a great backdrop for...
Hologrid: Monster Battle debuts on Samsung Gear VR
Phil Tippett created the monsters for the memorable Holochess game in the original Star Wars film. And last year, he made the monsters for a...
Oculus’s Michael Abrash: AR glasses will change everything in ‘the next 50 years’
Oculus chief scientist Michael Abrash believes that we may soon see the proliferation of augmented reality glasses, describing them as possibly “one of the...
Everything Facebook announced at F8 2017
Facebook has unveiled a host of new features at its 2017 F8 developer conference, most focused on the curation of its global community. Attendees...
Facebook is launching augmented reality game platform later this year
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg opened his F8 keynote event today with augmented reality, and he showed an example of what AR games would look...