At CES 2019, VR and AR took small but meaningful steps forward
Ahead of 2019’s Consumer Electronics Show, I hoped to see several key developments with next-generation VR and AR headsets — dramatically higher-resolution PC VR...
HTC Vive Pro Eye hands-on: Gaze into VR’s future with foveated rendering
Unexpectedly announced at an early CES 2019 media event, HTC’s latest and highest-end VR headset is the Vive Pro Eye — an upgraded version...
Sony acquires Audiokinetic and its popular Wwise sound tool
Sony Interactive Entertainment is making an acquisition to beef up its game-development toolkit. The publisher revealed that it is buying sound-engineering firm Audiokinetic. As...
Blueprint Reality’s MixCast Moments lets VR gamers share their experiences
Blueprint Reality has created a virtual reality broadcasting platform, MixCast, and the latest feature of it is a way for players to share their...
Nreal raises $15 million and shows off its 3-ounce mixed reality smart glasses
Nreal said it has raised $15 million and is unveiling its mixed reality (MR) smart glasses today at CES 2019, the big tech trade...
Oculus Rift leads again in Steam’s December hardware survey
I was half expecting to write that the combined power of the Vive and Vive Pro had allowed HTC to regain the top spot...
Oculus Rift sells out on Amazon over holidays
Amazon in the United States doesn’t look like it’ll have Oculus Rift in stock for a couple weeks, the website states, with a representative of...
Accell shows off USB-C VR adapter for Oculus Rift, Windows VR
A new VR standard named VirtualLink is set to connect the next generation of VR headsets to PCs with a single USB-C wire. Accell’s VR adapter...
The DeanBeat: 12 predictable predictions on gaming in 2019
I’m making my annual predictions for the game industry again, not because I’m good at it, but because it has become one of the...
iPhone XR review — A decent smartphone for mobile games
I’ve been looking around for a smartphone game to show off my Apple iPhone XR, and I’ve found it in Command & Conquer: Rivals,...