Launching originally for PlayStation VR, Robinson: The Journey was carefully optimized and tweaked to ensure consistent performance across all PS4 systems. The recently released Rift version—despite lacking Touch support—fortunately puts control into PC players hands, allowing you to max out the visuals, if your computer can handle it. No one knows how to better eek...
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Hulu Beats Netflix to Social Viewing in VR on Gear VR
Finally, one of the two major video streaming services available in VR will let you watch with your friends. Hulu has broken ground on social video viewing in VR with an update to their Gear VR app which lets up to three people watch regular and 360 videos together. Although it was promised way back...
Will Fire Emblem: Heroes lead to Nintendo’s hardcore-gaming demise? GamesBeat Decides
How to listen: GB Decides on Facebook Watch on YouTube Subscribe on iTunes, Google Play Music, or Stitcher. Fire Emblem: Heroes is out, and it is a really well-made mobile game. So why are we worried about it? Because it is making a lot of money for Nintendo, and some of us are afraid that this could lead to the publisher making...
Microsoft renews developer push for its Universal Windows Platform
During its online Windows Developer Day event today, Microsoft tried to get developers excited about building apps and games for its Universal Windows Platform (UWP). The next big release is the Windows 10 Creators Update, coming in “early 2017,” and the Software Development Kit (SDK) for that update is now feature-complete. Microsoft’s UWP allows developers...
Hayo launches crowdfunding for home control system that uses hand gestures
Hayo wants to put your home controls in your hands. The company is launching an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign today to raise money for its gesture control system that lets you wave your hand to command objects around your house. The system will control Internet of Things devices, or everyday objects that are smart and connected. The...
Pokémon Go gets Valentine’s Day event with a higher chance to attract pink pocket monsters
This Valentine’s Day, throw the flowers in the trash and cancel your reservations at that fancy restaurant. You and your significant other are spending this holiday with searching for virtual critters. Niantic has revealed to GamesBeat that it plans to launch Pokémon Go’s first in-game event of 2017 for Valentine’s Day. This in-game special will begin today,...
‘Knockout League’ Early Access Review
Knockout League (2017) is a single-player, arcade-style boxing game that promises to get your heart pumping as you duck, block, and punch your way to victory. Harking back to NES classic Punch-Out!! (1987), you learn pretty quickly that a storm of punches—the moral equivalent of button-mashing—will get you nothing if you can’t time them correctly to your opponent’s repertoire of...
Proof of Concept App Shrinks a Room Down to a Miniature 3D Map on the HoloLens
Sky Zhou, also know as Matrix Inception on YouTube, is no stranger here on NextReality. We loved his Pokémon concept game for HoloLens, as well as his D3D Keyboard that lets HoloLens users leave notes around the house. He just can’t seem to stop creating cool mixed reality apps, and he’s already got another one...
We Tried an Underwater VR Headset, and it Worked
In the space of just one year virtual reality has gone from a highly anticipated hobbyist kit, to a commercially available consumer product available at Best Buy. While the overwhelming majority of that is positive, one thing I do find myself missing is the days when one, or two innovators could blow our collective minds with...
Crytek’s ‘Robinson: The Journey’ Hits the Oculus Store Without Touch Support
Robinson: The Journey, Crytek’s second VR title and former PSVR exclusive, has landed on the Oculus store. Priced at $40, the game unfortunately lacks support for Oculus’ Touch controllers, leaving players to use a gamepad to awkwardly facilitate the game’s many hand-based interactions. Robinson: The Journey launched on PSVR in early October, and it seems a...
