After a long day at work, people love to unwind by playing video games. And a lot of them apparently like to play a game that takes them back to work. Owlchemy Labs announced today that its virtual reality game Job Simulator has passed $3 million in sales, making it one of the biggest hits...
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The DeanBeat: Great gadgets, moments, and trends at CES 2017
When the leaders of the tech industry get up on the big stages at the Consumer Electronics Show, you can learn a lot. I’m at the big tech trade show in Las Vegas, where face-to-face interaction can still yield some insights. I’ve collected some of those insights and looked for trends at CES 2017, which...
New Oculus Rift And Gear VR Releases For The Week Of 01/01/17
It’s not the biggest week for either Rift or Gear this week, but there are a handful of worthwhile apps, including a return from our friends at WEVR and Felix and Paul Studios. If you’re looking for great games then you’re out of luck, though. If you missed last week, you can see those new...
New HTC Vive Releases For The Week Of 01/01/17
Happy New Year! The very first list of releases for the year doesn’t have a heavy roster, adding a handful of casual experiences and escape the room content. With the two highlights, though, we have games pushing into a newer format for VR and one potentially setting the bar for another. Visual novels have a...
New PlayStation VR Releases For The Week Of 01/01/17
You may have noticed if you’re a frequent visitor to the site that we didn’t publish any new PS VR releases for the week of 12/25/16. That’s because there actually just weren’t any. This week, there is technically new stuff — and an app we missed two weeks ago — but overall it’s slim pickings...
Five Windows Holographic Mixed Reality Headsets Have Now Been Seen, but Most Have Not Been Touched
Some of the products I have been looking forward to seeing the most during CES 2017 has been the upcoming Windows Holographic virtual reality headsets. These are VR headset that will run a version of the Windows Holographic platform, which will allow users to have a similar experience as the HoloLens with a mixed reality...
Sony Has Now Sold Over 53 Million PlayStation 4 Consoles To Date After Big Holiday Push
Sony’s PlayStation 4 continues to widen the gap between it and the Xbox One with a strong 2016. In a statement, the consumer electronics company announced that over 53 million PlayStation 4 consoles had been sold to date. After the launch of the PlayStation VR headset, the PlayStation 4 Pro, and the remodeled PlayStation 4 Slim...
‘Mindshow’ CEO: VR Lets Animators Do What ‘Would Have Cost Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars’ Before
There are various mediums for creators of different kinds within the VR ecosystem and Visionary VR’s Mindshow is giving users a platform to create and share animated narratives through virtual reality. We reported on the software back in April, where it left an impression on us as VR’s “missing character animation and storyrtelling tool”, and CES 2017...
Dr. Oz is Using VR to Create The ‘Google Maps’ of the Human Body
Dr. Mehmet Cengiz Öz, better known by the simplified monicker, “Dr. Oz,” has quite the extensive resume. He is a cardiothoracic surgeon and professor at Columbia University as well as an author, speaker and television promoter. Now, you can add “virtual reality evangelist” to that list as well. Öz recently co-founded a company called ShareCare — a web platform...
SketchAR Lets You Trace Over AR Images To Become The Artist You’ve Aspired To Be
Augmented reality’s potential is immense. To say that of any new technology is increasingly cliché, indeed, but every few weeks another program or piece of hardware rekindles that train of thought and we have to revisit the declaration. This time around we have an application that doesn’t overlay our real world with entertaining or educational...
