Breakroom teams up with High Fidelity to bring 3D audio to online meetings
Social meeting space Breakroom has integrated High Fidelity’s 3D audio into its 3D virtual world for social and business events. The deal is a convergence...
How sound technologies can bring emotion to the metaverse
Many of us first think about the visual component of the metaverse, but sound will have just as an important part to play in...
The DeanBeat: Our next game event focuses on growth and the metaverse
The game industry is so full of surprises, like Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drawing more than 4.5 million views for her hilarious get-out-the-vote Twitch livestream...
Just how close are we to achieving the Metaverse?
Presented by Galaxy Interactive Pioneers in virtual worlds Philip Rosedale of High Fidelity; Matthew Ball of Epyllion Industries; Raph Koster of Playable Worlds; Frederic...
GamesBeat Summit Digital speakers: The Metaverse is coming
We’re taking GamesBeat Summit 2020 into a digital online-only format. And now we’re happy to welcome our next round of speakers. Register now for...
The DeanBeat: The blockchain hype train comes to gaming
Blockchain this and that. You hear it all the time now. I get pitched a few times per week, or sometimes per day, on...
How game developers can figure out what they’re passionate about
NBCUniversal, Intel, Microsoft, and Unity are engaged in a developer contest dubbed the Universal GameDev Challenge, in which the companies asked indie game developers to...
High Fidelity raises $35 million with goal of bringing VR to ‘a billion people’
High Fidelity has raised $35 million for its open source platform for building distributed social virtual reality worlds. The platform leverages blockchain technology to enable linkable VR experiences that can be easily deployed across platforms that also adhere to the open, transparent, and secure ledger technology.
The Leisure Economy: Where we all get paid to play games
Of all the ideas at our recent GamesBeat Summit 2018, I loved the notion of The Leisure Economy. This is about a utopia we...
High Fidelity and NeoSensory launch Ready Player One-style Haptic Jacket
I just saw Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One film, and I’ve been thinking about the haptic suit that allows the main character to feel the...