Where’s the next Pokémon Go? Here’s what’s holding augmented reality back
For most people, augmented reality became real with the explosion of Pokémon Go. People who hadn’t taken a leisurely walk outside in years were...
Ludia and Universal launch Jurassic World Alive AR mobile game
NBCUniversal and mobile game publisher Ludia announced the worldwide launch of Jurassic World Alive on the iOS App Store and Google Play Store. The game...
Arca’s Path embarks on an adventure in a surreal VR maze
The virtual reality adventure Arca’s Path is all about finding the way home. Its dream-like environment is a series of mazes, some suspended in...
What Sony’s PlayStation 4 ‘end-of-life’ means for PSVR and PSVR 2
When Sony executive John Tsuyoshi Kodera told investors this week that the PlayStation 4 is entering the “final phase of its life cycle,” there were...
Why Facebook engineered the Half Dome Varifocal VR headset
At Display Week in Los Angeles, Facebook revealed why its researchers and engineers built a varifocal VR headset. Over the last few years researchers...
Cubism is a tranquil VR puzzler about building abstract shapes
Cubism is an elegant puzzler about building 3D shapes in virtual reality. It’s the latest game from indie developer Thomas Van Bouwel, who previously...
HTC Vive Focus gets smartphone integration and better battery life
HTC’s standalone VR headset Vive Focus launched in China last year, and it’s getting some neat software upgrades ahead of its anticipated global release....
Social VR’s best platform is the open web, not walled gardens
That mainstream appeal for VR continues to elude the mixed reality industry in Western markets is a point I touched on last week when...