Niantic and 8th Wall roll out new tools and mixed-reality experience
Niantic and 8th Wall this week revealed Wol, its first mixed-reality experience. Powered by 8th Wall, Wol puts players in the middle of a...
Mixed reality is exploring new horizons
Beatshapers’ Alexey Menshikov took a few minutes at the GamesBeat Summit to talk about mixed reality technology, past and future. Mixed reality technology is...
Karate Combat closes $18M to build Web3, mixed reality live sports
Karate Combat has raised $18 million to fund its full-contact martial arts league that features combatants in immersive CGI environments. The league’s (mixed reality)...
Resolution Games’ Spatial Ops is a frenetic VR shooter
I was looking out the glass doors of Resolution Games‘ studio in Austin, Texas. And enemies were coming at me. So I had to...
Meta Reality Lab sets its vision for mixed reality in the future
Meta had a tough year in 2022 as skepticism rose around its big bet on the metaverse and weakness in the core business forced...
Augmented reality and gaming’s future
The tech business spends a lot of time on VR. Creating exciting new worlds can overshadow the more practical uses of new hardware. This,...
Ernst & Young will prepare clients for the metaverse and Web3 with virtual experiences
The metaverse is clearly going corporate. Ernst & Young said it will provide EY wavespace experiences in the metaverse to help clients prepare for...
Magic Leap shows off its next-generation enterprise AR glasses — hands-on preview
After almost four years of work, Magic Leap is showing off its next generation of augmented reality glasses for enterprise applications. I got to...
Peggy Johnson interview: How Magic Leap is getting traction with its enterprise pivot
Magic Leap has gone through a whirlwind in the past year. Founded in 2010 by Rony Abovitz, the company set out to be a pioneer...
How Unity is positioning itself to democratize the metaverse
“Right now we’re just at the cusp of getting to the point where a lot of technologies, a lot of concepts, are coming together,...