Magic Leap’s and King’s deals pave way for big jump in 2016 game transactions
Augmented reality glasses firm Magic Leap confirmed today that it has raised $793.5 million from Alibaba Group and other investors. Together with the expected...
Google’s Project Tango will enable cool augmented reality games (hands-on demo)
Larry Yang, a former member of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 hardware team, gave me a demo recently over at his new job at Google. Yang...
The DeanBeat: Our preview of next week’s CES 2016 tech extravaganza
I made my predictions last week about what will happen in games in 2016. But next week, I’m going to expand my horizons beyond games...
Watch an unbelievable augmented reality fight scene play out on a desk
The future isn’t only virtual — it’s also augmented. Epic Games — the studio responsible for the Unreal Engine game-making tools — has released...
Pantomime launches immersive virtual worlds that don’t require VR goggles
Using a virtual-reality headset is just one way of looking at an animated digital world. A new startup called Pantomime has come up with another...
CastAR will return $1M in Kickstarter money and postpone augmented reality glasses shipments
CastAR is postponing the launch of its augmented reality glasses, but it is also doing something unusual. The startup is returning all of the $1 million...
Why does Magic Leap need another $827M?
Augmented reality startup Magic Leap is reportedly raising $827 million in a third round of funding, according to Forbes. If it succeeds, it will be...
Microsoft’s HoloLens gets its first augmented-reality rival: Asus
Microsoft is not the only company moving into the augmented-reality hardware space. Asus, one of the world’s largest computer-hardware manufacturers, revealed that it is...
Eyefluence raises $14M for eye-popping eye-tracking technology for VR
Eyefluence has an eye-popping technology straight out of science fiction. The Silicon Valley company is announcing it has raised $14 million for its eye-tracking...
Digi-Capital unveils its first global best-in-class AR/VR benchmarks
Digi-Capital has completed the first technical benchmarking of augmented reality/virtual reality head-mounted displays (HMD) globally, and we would like to thank the AR/VR CEOs and CTOs...