You may not be aware of this but for years now Microsoft has been steadily working to build the world’s smartest computer brain. Now, that brain is getting a whole lot smarter. Meet CRIS and LUIS Today, Microsoft is announcing Custom Speech Service, the latest program to join the ranks of Microsoft Cognitive Services. This is a suite of innovations that...
Though it’s not as costly as PC-based VR, getting into mobile VR can still be expensive if you don’t have the hardware to run it. ZTE’s Axon 7 is helping lighten that load a bit. The Chinese phone maker today announced that its handset, a flagship device that released all the way back in July 2016...
An opinion piece on The Economist dated February 4th 2017, offers the opinion that Augmented Reality will be big in business before it is accepted more widely. Wearables are discussed and the idea is to build a pair of “smart glasses” that do everything a smartphone can, and more. Augmented Reality (AR) would “paint computerised...
An article on Upload VR suggests that Apple is working on something in the VR/AR space. A newly published patent may offer clues to this. The patent is for a “wearable information system having at least one camera.” According to the abstract: “The invention is related to a wearable information system having at least one camera, the...
Last Friday saw Oculus release its anticipated Rift 1.11 update, along with promised improvements to tracking for the VR headset and its Touch controllers. But not everyone was satisfied with the release. Multiple reports cropped up online following the update’s roll out, with people still having issues with multi-sensor Rift setups. In some cases users were...
A bundle of nine VR indie games is coming soon to the PlayStation VR which includes Dreadhalls, a popular horror title for Gear VR and Oculus Rift. HeroCade takes a novel approach to the bundle’s presentation, combining all the games with a ‘metaverse quest’. Undoubtedly the most-recognisable title in the HeroCade bundle, Dreadhalls is a...
Update: Matt Stenquist, the designer of the icons uncovered yesterday, has taken to Twitter to explain that his work was a collaboration between Ubisoft and his university, and not an official project. No Assassin’s Creed VR yet, then. Everyone who is spreading the Ubisoft Assasin;s Creed work it is not official, it is a collaboration...
Valve’s collection of VR-minigames, The Lab, is one of the highest rated SteamVR titles and it’s free. With support for both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, there’s no reason not to try it if you own a PC VR headset. Beyond some very polished mini-games, Valve has included quite a few easter eggs to uncover. Released all...
Last summer, Pokémon Go players descended on Milwaukee County parks in droves, and those Poké masters allegedly left quite a mess. This has prompted a response from the people in charge of those public spaces. The Milwaukee county board passed an ordinance last week that will require Pokémon Go developer Niantic to acquire a permit to use the county’s...
EXCLUSIVE: Game developer Adam Orth, the creator of the groundbreaking VR title Adr1ft, is going all in on virtual reality. Orth said in an exclusive interview with GamesBeat that he is joining VR game startup First Contact as creative strategist. Orth plans on creating his next game at the Los Angeles startup, which raised a...
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