Meta starts taking orders for high-end augmented reality dev kit
Meta, the maker of a cool augmented reality (AR) system, has begun taking orders for its $950 Meta 2 development kit. Augmented reality is...
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey on Minecraft in VR and launching the Rift
After years of development and demos, virtual reality’s moment of truth is approaching. And that’s pretty exciting for Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus...
Satoshi Tajiri: The man who created Pokémon
Pokémon is a multimedia giant, but it all started with one man. That would be Satoshi Tajiri, who created developer Game Freak and the...
Minecraft in VR is cool, but it made me seasick
Microsoft showed off a hands-on demo of Minecraft in virtual reality on the Oculus Rift VR headset. The preview experience was cool, but it...
Nintendo Direct livestream coming Friday for Pokémon’s 20th anniversary
Two decades ago, Nintendo unleashed the first Pokémon games in Japan. On Friday, Nintendo celebrates this milestone with fans. A Pokémon-themed Nintendo Direct livestreaming video event is...
The new $100 Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR opens for preorders in the U.S. today
We knew it was coming some time in November, but Samsung has confirmed that the new Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR is open for preorders...
How Logitech’s betting on bold design to ditch its ‘mice and keyboards’ legacy
Logitech is a brand synonymous with PC peripherals and accessories, but the Swiss company has been delving into an increasing number of categories in...
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says that VR’s 250 startups remind him of the dawn of graphics chips
We’ve seen the craze around virtual reality before, like when the 3D graphics chip industry was born in the 1990s. Back then, dozens of...
Samsung backs Interlude to change the way we watch movies in VR
Virtual reality is slowly pushing film into an evolutionary split. To one side are the traditional linear narrative techniques. To the other sits the...
Activision Blizzard’s strategy for world conquest
Activision Blizzard has become the No. 2 publicly traded game company in the world, second only to China’s Tencent. It has done so by...
