category-/Science/Engineering & Technology Archives - Page 28 of 79

The DeanBeat — The Walking Dead: Onslaught creator Survios raises $16.7 million for VR games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 2, 2020
4 min

Survios has raised $16.7 million to continue building gripping virtual reality games such as the just-launched The Walking Dead: Onslaught. This is the company’s...

Continue Reading
4 min

HaptX wins $1.5 million NSF grant to create full-body haptics for VR

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 29, 2020
2 min

Virtual reality headsets are already advanced enough to make your brain believe you’re moving through an artificial 3D space, but VR hardware makers are...

Continue Reading
2 min

SideQuest raises $650,000 for testing apps and games for Oculus Quest

Posted byby Jason Wilson
September 26, 2020
2 min

Sideloading platform SideQuest is taking $650K in early investment from BoostVC, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, and The Fund. The relatively small preseed funding will...

Continue Reading
2 min

Oculus CTO John Carmack speaks on Joe Rogan's podcast about the current state of AR and VR.

John Carmack says he’s ‘kind of embarrassed’ over Facebook’s social VR during pandemic

Posted byby Jason Wilson
September 19, 2020
2 min

Facebook Reality Labs consulting CTO John Carmack says he’s “kind of embarrassed” about Facebook’s social VR offerings on Oculus headsets over the course of...

Continue Reading
2 min

The Oculus Quest 2 will debut on October 13.

Can Oculus Quest 2 overcome Facebook’s tarnished reputation?

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 17, 2020
5 min

Calling myself “deeply conflicted” about Facebook’s upcoming standalone VR headset Oculus Quest 2 would be an understatement. My long but imperfect memory can’t recall any...

Continue Reading
5 min

Facebook’s whacking of Oculus Rift S is a mercy killing, not a mob hit

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 16, 2020
3 min

It’s no coincidence that Facebook is killing the Oculus Rift S VR headset on the same day it’s announcing the Oculus Quest 2 at...

Continue Reading
3 min

Population: One is a vertical battle royale in VR.

Facebook has a wave of new Oculus Quest 2 games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 16, 2020
5 min

Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 standalone virtual reality headset will arrive October 13. And Facebook and its VR developer partners have made sure that a...

Continue Reading
5 min

Dean Takahashi of GamesBeat tries out the Oculus Quest 2.

Oculus Quest 2 and Facebook Horizon hands-on — An easy experience for mainstream VR

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 16, 2020
8 min

While the Oculus Quest virtual reality headset debuted just 17 months ago, it’s time for it to move over, as Facebook is launching the...

Continue Reading
8 min

Facebook unveils $300 Oculus Quest 2, kills Rift

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 16, 2020
5 min

Facebook has unveiled its Oculus Quest 2 standalone wireless virtual reality headset, starting at $300 and with 50% more pixels than the previous version....

Continue Reading
5 min

If Nvidia buys Arm, how open will it remain?

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 12, 2020
3 min

For weeks, we’ve heard rumors that Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Arm from Softbank. The latest acquisition price is more than $40...

Continue Reading
3 min