One of the industry’s most popular game-making tools is getting a wave of improvements as well as support for a major upcoming console. Epic Games is updating its Unreal Engine toolkit to version 4.15. This is a toolkit that many developers use to build 3D games on consoles, PC, and mobile platforms. Games that use...
Smartphone maker HTC is working on a new kind of mobile virtual reality headset, according to a story from CNET. Chialin Chang, chief financial officer at Taiwan-based HTC, said that the new headset will be compatible with the company’s new flagship smartphone, the U Ultra. But he did not go into further details, nor say whether the device would...
Lytro may have had some setbacks in 2016, but it appears to be onto something. Investors have noticed the potential of the company’s light field technology, so much that Lytro has raised another round of funding, bringing in $60 million in new capital. The lead investor is Blue Pool Capital, which is affiliated with Alibaba...
Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy … well, nothing Gold (or Silver) can stay away from Pokémon Go, that is. The Google Maps-powered monster-catching location game is getting 80 new creatures, developer Niantic has revealed directly to GamesBeat. This means that dedicated players will now have a chance to catch Johto region starters like Chikorita, Cyndaquil, Totodile beginning later...
The second pack of new DLC content is finally out for Resident Evil 7: Biohazard [Review: 9/10] in the form of the Banned Footage Vol. 2 compilation. The first Banned Footage DLC offered up an excellent replayable Nightmare mode and an escape-the-room style experience called Bedroom, both of which featured VR support. The tougher Ethan...
Are you or your team thinking of releasing your documentation for use in AR delivery systems? How will you get started? What skills and tools are required? Who has the components you will need? Who is going to design the UX and do the authoring? Full article By Christine Perey Board Member, Sponsor Member of AR...
SSVAR encourages the Swiss economy to embrace progress by promoting R&D, dialogue and knowledge exchange between academic and industrial players. All the business sectors are targeted: Arts, education, music, medtech, architecture and construction, manufacturing, tourism and culture. We aim to facilitate the creation and implementation of immersive technologies to elicit and assure Swiss competitivity. We are building our own private partnership,...
E3 hype is already in full swing and companies are starting to share bits of information about their appearances at the expo this June, even though GDC still hasn’t even happened yet. Perhaps most notably thus far, Microsoft has moved away from their typical conference showing. Usually, we’d get Microsoft’s conference early on Monday with...
SYREN (2017) is a single-player, survival-horror game that will have you sneaking around corners, hiding under virtual desks, and flailing helplessly as you’re mauled to death by the world’s ghastly “Syrens,” a terrifying amalgamation of human/robot/awfulness. Despite some pretty distracting bugs in the game, it’s safe to say that people with high blood pressure or heart...
Crayon, a free 3D drawing application by the mysteriously named arkalian, showed up in the Windows Store recently, so I gave it a try like I do all new apps for Windows Holographic. Truthfully, I loaded it up not expecting much, but wow, was I wrong. It’s a simple idea, but it’s executed well enough...
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