Immersal maps Helsinki in city-scale AR using crowdsourcing mobile app
Last year, U.K.-based Scape showed off a city-scale AR mapping solution that promised to let mobile devices tap into 3D maps and persistent, cloud-stored digital...
WHO and game companies launch #PlayApartTogether to promote physical distancing
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the video game industry have teamed up on #PlayApartTogether, a promotional campaign that encourages healthy physical distancing by...
Unity Technologies launches cloud-based game simulations for developer playtests
Unity Technologies has launched a cloud-based game simulation service for game developers so they can playtest and balance their games more easily. The Unity Game...
Unity drops out of GDC as coronavirus fears mount
Unity CEO John Riccitiello announced today that the company is pulling out of this year’s Game Developers Conference, which will take place in San...
Unity gets controller-free hand-tracking in the editor with Oculus Link
The latest update to the Oculus Integration for Unity adds the Quest’s controller-free hand-tracking to the editor. Facebook added experimental controller-free hand-tracking for Quest in...
Airbnb tops list of 13 potential tech IPOs in 2020
The 2020 IPO market faces strong headwinds, including lingering disappointment over some of the biggest public tech offerings of 2019. Into this cloud of...
Unity gets toolkit for common AR/VR interactions
The Unity game engine released a preview for “XR Interaction Toolkit,” which handles some core interactions for VR and AR. Like most optional Unity...
Oculus and Unity offer new intermediate-level guide to making VR games
Facebook’s Oculus and Unity Technologies are offering a 20-hour intermediate guide to building a VR game. The new guide is designed to introduce people...
Google open-sources Cardboard to keep ‘no-frills’ VR widely available
Google may have canned Daydream VR and poured cold water on both its Cardboard viewers and VR SDK, but it doesn’t want to see...
Arm partners with Unity to make 3D run everywhere
Arm will collaborate with Unity Technologies to ensure that 3D applications such as games and entertainment run smoothly on hardware that uses Arm architecture....