Thanks for coming to GamesBeat Summit 2018: The Future of Games
Thank you to those who came to GamesBeat Summit 2018. We had 264 attendees, compared to about 200 in our first summit in 2015....
Sansar social VR launches on HTC’s Viveport with more Ready Player One content
Sansar is a social VR platform from Linden Lab, the maker of the Second Life virtual world. And today, Sansar is now available as...
The DeanBeat: The Oasis is here, just on the wrong screen
It’s a good time for us to get inspired about games. I was delighted to see Ernest Cline’s vision for Ready Player One to come...
Ready Player One inspires Oasis VR portals so users can seamlessly switch apps
The jarring experiences of launching, exiting, and switching VR apps within a separate 2D interface could become distant memories if Oasis by Admix and...
Morph3D supplies avatar creator for Ready Player One’s The Oasis VR beta
Morph3D has built a platform for creating custom avatars for virtual reality characters. And it is announcing today that it is integrating its Ready Player...
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...
Ready Player One film review — Not bad for a Spielberg film with a lot of new licenses
The tech, game, and virtual reality industries have a lot of hopes tied to Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One film, which debuts on March...
HTC launches first Ready Player One VR apps
In just under one year’s time, HTC’s VR partnership with Steven Spielberg’s movie Ready Player One has gone from promise to (virtual) reality. HTC...
Roblox draws more than 50 million players a month to game world
Roblox has built a Lego-like virtual world where kids and teens can create their own games, and now it is drawing more than 50...
The DeanBeat: High Fidelity takes us dancing in a virtual reality club
I’m looking forward to Steven Spielberg’s upcoming film based on Ernest Cline’s virtual reality sci-fi novel Ready Player One. In one scene in that 2011...