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HTC Vive boss: Standalone headsets will justify first-gen VR’s hype

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 9, 2018
2 min

HTC's head of VR for China believes weak sales of early VR headsets came from overhype and overcomplication, while the solution will be premium standalone VR headsets like Vive Focus.

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Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with Edge, Fluent, display, and Registry Editor improvements

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 6, 2018
5 min

Microsoft has released Windows 10 build 17711 from the RS5 branch. Among the changes are improvements to Edge, Fluent Design, display, and the Registry Editor.

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Alvin Wang Graylin, HTC's China President, delivers a keynote speech at MWCS2018.

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ProBeat: HTC should kill its phones and focus on VR

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 6, 2018
2 min

Let’s talk about HTC. The struggling Taiwanese consumer electronics company announced more layoffs this week: 1,500 jobs, or around 25 percent of its workforce....

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Posted inin Technology

Google’s DeepMind taught AI teamwork by playing Quake III Arena

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 3, 2018
3 min

Google's DeepMind today shared the results of training multiple AI systems to play Capture the Flag on Quake III Arena, a multiplayer first-person shooter game. The AI played nearly 450,000 games to gain its dominance over human players and establish its understanding of how to work with other machines and humans.

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Zain Jaffer: Criminal abuse charges dropped against former Vungle CEO

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 3, 2018
2 min

A San Mateo, California County judge dismissed felony assault and child abuse charges against Zain Jaffer, founder and former CEO of mobile ad firm...

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Google launches AR measuring app

Posted byby Mike Minotti
July 2, 2018
1 min

Want to measure how Apple and Google are doing in the AR race? Well you could look to both company’s actual measuring apps, both...

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Varifocal moving screens inside of Half-Dome.

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Oculus details its Varifocal half-dome VR prototype

Posted byby Mike Minotti
June 30, 2018
1 min

Last month, we reported on a talk by Douglas Lanman of Oculus Research (now Facebook’s Reality Labs) from the 2018 SID Display Week event. The fascinating...

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Posted inin Development

ProBeat: Windows 10 dropping Sets (again) is for the best

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 29, 2018
3 min

Microsoft has lately been releasing Windows 10 builds on a weekly cadence. Because of a bug last week, however, this week's build brought more than the average number of improvements (and bugs). And yet, the highlight of this build was not what was added, but what was removed: Sets.

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Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with Edge, Skype, video, typing, font, and Task Manager improvements

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 28, 2018
8 min

Microsoft has released Windows 10 build 17704 from the RS5 branch. Among the changes are improvements to Edge, Skype, Diagnostic Data Viewer, video, typing insights, font, security, Task Manager, accessibility, container, and Windows Mixed Reality.

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As games become easier to develop, soulless but pleasant-looking games are on the increase (Tennis World Tour, shown).

Posted inin Development

When anyone can make games, ‘soul’ will make some rise to the top

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 24, 2018
4 min

As exciting as the democratization of game development may sound, it's problematic in practice. Pretty soon, it's going to be easier than ever to make a game, but harder than ever to convince people to give it a chance.

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