Our next speaker for our latest GamesBeat event is Richard Marks, a senior research engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment. He will talk about a variety of subjects at our GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, and tech create real-world magic. Last year, Marks spoke on “What Works in VR and What Doesn’t” at our GamesBeat 2016 event...
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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Hearthstone’s big changes, and Pokémon Go gets more monsters
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we got to go inside Valve, PewDiePie causes controversy, and we went hands-on with Halo Wars 2. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: The esports scene keeps gaining momentum Hearthstone’s big changes soothe players worries while padding Blizzard’s wallet Nexon’s Owen Mahoney...
Video: HoloLenz Adds Magic Windows to HoloLens & Gives Portals to New Worlds
When I first started with HoloLens development last April, one of the first things I created was a window. The purpose of that window was to be attached to a wall and give the illusion of being in a different space—an effect that is often referred to as a “magic window” effect by developers. My...
New Worlds To Visit And Games To Play In VR This Weekend (2/17/17)
Keeping up with everything new happening in VR is getting more challenging with each passing week. We track new releases on Oculus, Steam/Viveport, and PlayStation, but there is also a constant flow of new 360-degree video projects as well as live events and short demo experiences being broadcast in VR with increasing frequency, not to...
Vive Tracker Dev Kits Are Shipping to Developers, Applications Remain Open
HTC promised to give away 1,000 Vive Tracker dev kits in an effort to kick start an ecosystem of accessories and VR game implementations for the motion-tracked accessory. Now the company says the first shipments are on their way to developers. After receiving 2,300 applications for the Vive Tracker dev kit, HTC says the first...
New HTC Vive Releases For The Week Of 02/12/17
Welcome to a new addition of the HTC Vive new releases! This week you’ve got some horror, some virtual tabletop strategy, treehouse basketball, and much more. Our first highlight is VR Home, an Early Access sandbox that is shaping up to be an incredible experience. In it, you build virtual your room or a large home...
New Oculus Rift and Gear VR Releases For Week Of 02/12/17
It’s a healthy week of new releases across both Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear, with a combination of free and premium experiences you shouldn’t pass up. It goes beyond gaming with new comic books, travel experiences and, of course, more horror. Who could live without VR horror? If you missed last week, you can see...
Phantom AR Seeks to Democratize Augmented Reality
A development team in Silicon Valley is nearing early access release of a new hardware-independent augmented reality platform called Phantom AR. Compatible with Android and iOS-based headsets, as well as the Microsoft HoloLens and Meta 2, Phantom AR runs the entire augmented experience, including the user interface, applications, asset and resource management, and interaction with...
New PlayStation VR Releases For The Week Of 02/12/17
PlayStation VR fans rejoice! After a few weeks of waiting this week finally has some big new releases for you to get sucked into. We’ve got one of gaming’s biggest racing franchises sliding into the headset, as well as more terror from the world of Resident Evil, and a game to get fit with. That’s...
Report: 39% of Game Developers Working on AR/VR Headsets
A survey of game developers attending the annual GDC conference suggests major growth in the number of developers building games for AR and VR headsets. The 2017 GDC State of the Game Industry report, which gathered data from 4,500 attendees of the annual GDC conference, has been published. Among the insights from the report is that...
