BB-8 and other Star Wars favorites bring Google’s Project Tango to life
We are on the cusp of some big breakthroughs for augmented reality, and a little soccer-ball-like droid wants to show you how it works....
Glu CEO predicts the trends that will be hot next year in mobile games
Glu Mobile has seen some ups and downs in the past year in mobile games. The San Francisco game publisher’s fortunes will rise and...
You can now play Angry Birds Friends, Monopoly, Risk, and more on your Chromecast
In case you didn’t know, Google’s Chromecast is capable of playing games. Oh, you knew that already? Well, did you know Angry Birds Friends...
How Pokémon Go will benefit from Niantic’s lessons from Ingress on location-based game design
Niantic Labs was an oddball startup within Google. Conceived by John Hanke to promote exercise and an appreciation of public art, Niantic created a...
Google’s top tech searches in 2015: iPhone 6s, Samsung Galaxy S6, and Apple Watch
Just like every other company on the planet, Google puts together end-of-year lists for its various properties. But there’s one that matters more than all...
New Chrome experiment turns your phone into a Star Wars lightsaber
Google today launched a new Chrome experiment called “Lightsaber Escape” in partnership with Disney, LucasFilm, and Industrial Light & Magic. The Star Wars “interactive...
Google is giving away Star Wars-themed Cardboard virtual reality viewers
Updated at 11:25 Pacific time: They are already all gone. Hope you were able to get one. Google is continuing its marketing partnership with...
Thanks, Google: Mobile user acquisition just got a lot more interesting
Mobile marketers and publishers might have a lot of reasons to thank Google in the coming months. Millions of them, in fact, and possibly...
100,000 students and counting: Google brings VR kits to schools in 15 more cities
Google is expanding its Expeditions Pioneer Program, an initiative to help teachers and students use virtual reality in schools around the world. The program...
Google is cutting the cost of its Project Tango depth-sensing tablets in half
Despite Project Tango’s cloudy future, Google continues to push the 3D depth-sensing tech to developers. The latest pitch is a 50 percent discount off its pricey $512 tablet development kit. The deal, effective...