Twitch competitor Hitbox is getting 4K livestreaming at 60 frames per second
Hitbox improves its technology to widen its appeal among demanding gamers.
Oculus’ Brendan Iribe describes how they created ‘magical’ Oculus Touch virtual-reality controllers
Brendan Iribe gets seasick from VR. But he says the latest version of the Oculus Rift suits him much better.
YouTube Gaming app is coming this summer
YouTube isn't conceding gaming to Amazon's Twitch division.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Oculus says hello to the world, PS4 wins May, and game industry preps for E3
Check out our entire week’s worth of coverage on VentureBeat’s channel for video games, GamesBeat.
Everything Oculus VR announced at its pre-E3 Rift event today
Oculus VR held a media briefing today where it announced some of the details of its virtual-reality headset, which will launch in the first quarter of next year. We’re still waiting on a few other important pieces of information, but first, let’s cover what we do know.
The Oculus-Microsoft alliance is just a stopgap, not a powershift
It's really a marriage of convenience, one born from the need both the Xbox company and Oculus have for content and devices until they have thriving ecosystems of their own.
Oculus reveals the final design of its Rift virtual reality headset
A whole virtual reality economy is riding on Oculus Rift, which is the premiere technology for viewing apps in VR. Digi-Capital estimates that the combination of augmented reality and virtual reality will be a $150 billion market by 2020. The potential is so huge that Facebook bought Oculus last year for $2 billion.
New Oculus branding ditches the creepy eye for something more … abstract
Oculus launched a new webpage this morning that shows off its new branding for the first time. The virtual reality platform group dropped the eye-themed logo, simplifying the look with a widened “O.”
E3 stretches in new directions: mobile games, VR, and 5,000 fan attendees
E3 will feature 273 companies, including lots of new VR, mobile, and online game firms.
Amazon says it is building an ‘ambitious new PC game’
Amazon has hired a team of video game developers who are working on "an ambitious new PC game project using the latest technology."
