Virtual Desktop now mirrors Windows PCs on Oculus Go and Gear VR
Two and a half years ago, the Oculus Rift version of Virtual Desktop enabled users of Facebook’s $400 headset to view their Windows PC desktops...
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with Fluent, time, microphone, and search improvements
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview with Fluent, time, microphone, search, Windows Update, and Mail & Calendar improvements. This build is from...
Google Pixel Slate review: An expensive work in progress
Another year, another powerful Chrome OS device from Google. Like clockwork, flagship devices have accompanied milestone releases of the Mountain View company’s lightweight, Linux-based...
Crypto-mining hangover continues to hit AMD and Nvidia
The crypto-mining craze is fully behind us. Few people are still using PC graphics cards to mine for Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency, and that has pushed...
Atari CEO interview — How Rollercoaster Tycoon revival saved the company
When Frederic Chesnais took over the legendary Atari company in 2013, the new owners had about $34 million (€30 million) in debt and about...
Happy Thanksgiving — See you in West Virginia
Happy Thanksgiving. It’s a good time to reflect on all that we at GamesBeat and VentureBeat have to be thankful for. We are glad...
Nomadic’s Arizona Sunshine is an impressive step in location-based VR’s evolution
We’re at the point now where it typically takes a lot to really ‘Wow!’ me with VR. After covering the industry heavily for almost...
OpenAI and DeepMind AI system achieves ‘superhuman’ performance in Pong and Enduro
Machines learning to play games by watching humans might sound like the plot of a science fiction novel, but that’s exactly what researchers at...
The DeanBeat: The madness and sanity of Sony leaving E3
Sony stunned the gaming world yesterday when it announced it will not attend the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade show in 2019. For the...
Nvidia CEO: Cryptocurrency mining hangover surprised us
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, acknowledged that the cryptocurrency mining hangover “surprised us” and caused an excess of graphics processing unit (GPU) inventory in...