Google reveals new Daydream View VR headset for $99
Google has a new holster to turn your smartphone into a virtual reality head-mounted display. During the company’s hardware event today in San Francisco,...
Intel makes the case for wireless PC-based high-end virtual reality
Intel recently hosted a 100-year-old man at its virtual reality lab in Hillsboro, Oregon. Lyle Becker was a big fan of the VR flight simulator,...
Otoy’s Jules Urbach believes the blockchain can produce a crowdsourced rendering engine
Once upon a time, you had to submit a program to the computer department. They would run it, and send the results back to...
For once, Microsoft got the jump on Google and Apple with HoloLens — will it last?
Mixed reality (MR) is a new computing platform that‘s emerging from the current fields of augmented and virtual reality. MR blends the physical and...
AR/VR Weekly: One mega-corp to rule them all
Amazon. Apple. Google. Microsoft. These four corporations, our Chris O’Brien writes, are fighting for one thing: Controlling how we interact with tech, in every single...
Google Play’s Infinite Deviation program courts indie game devs
Google Play wants to bring in diverse indie game developers with its Infinite Deviation program. Developers have until October 9 to submit their mobile game...
Twitch Prime is shaping the future of esports
When Amazon acquired Twitch in 2014, it sent a message to the general North American live-streaming industry that esports wasn’t just a legitimate source...
Google’s first ARCore goal: 100 million AR-capable Android phones
Earlier this week, Google announced ARCore, a software-based solution for making more Android devices AR-capable without the need for depth sensors and extra cameras. It...
AR/VR Weekly: Google makes augmented reality waves
Watch out, Apple and ARKit. Google’s getting into the AR dev kit game — and bringing augmented reality to potentially 2 billion Android devices. On...
Game boss interview: Epic’s Tim Sweeney on blockchain, digital humans, and Fortnite
Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games and one of the game industry’s tech savants, has traveled the world to speak about his vision...