PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is the biggest PC game in the world right now. Of course, that’s not exactly true because more people are still playing Dota 2 or League of Legends, but this is the closest any game has come in a while to getting into the conversation with those perennial champs. Last weekend, PUBG —...
One day the world will know how many VR headsets exist in the world like we do iPhones, game consoles, and move tickets. One day…maybe. As it stands, companies like HTC, Oculus, and even Google are being very tight-lipped about how many Vives, Rifts, and Daydream Views they’ve sold (respectively) and it’s making it very...
The first trailer for Steven Spielberg’s big screen version of 2011’s Ernest Cline novel Ready Player One arrived over the weekend, and we’ve started dissecting its many revelations. Now before I go too far I’ll say that I’ve only read Ready Player One once, so my memory of how the book differs from what we...
After 14 years of working on home and portable consoles, Ready At Dawn this month released Lone Echo and its multiplayer spinoff Echo Arena on the Oculus Rift & Touch. We talked with Ready At Dawn Founder & Chief Creative Officer Ru Weerasuriya to understand how the games came to be, the challenges faced during production,...
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on July 1st, 2016 and has been republished in relation to the Ready Player One movie trailer debut. With the introduction of top-end devices such as the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive as well as the simple ones such as Google Cardboard, Virtual Reality is the next digital...
Furniture arranging apps have been rolling out on different platforms for a while now thanks, in no small part, to augmented reality. However, people have been waiting to see what the first room arranging app was going to be with Apple’s ARKit. Most of the signs pointed to it being an IKEA app … until...
I know I can’t be the only person that loves playing tabletop games but hates the setup, cleanup, and organizational headache they often cause. I’ve loved playing Dungeons & Dragons for years, but it’s a hassle lugging my literal treasure chest full of gear and supplies around. Playing online is great, but it lacks the...
The app SketchAR is an easy, innovative way to trace what you want to draw onto the canvas of your choice. It was first released on iOS and Android Tango phones, but now, finally, it has been released on Microsoft’s HoloLens. SketchAR uses computer vision to scan the environment and place a virtual image on...
Out of all of the booths at the San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) 2017 Interactive Zone across the street from Petco Park, the Recoil booth was easily the most impressive. The company behind the Recoil laser tag system, Skyrocket Toys, rented out a large space in the Interactive Zone lot that was designed to look...
Working on VR audio technology I often hear, “you mean 3D audio?” or “how is it different from existing 3D audio technology?”. If VR audio is defined as creating and delivering audio signals that are suited for VR content, then the term 3D audio does not fully reflect the capabilities of the audio in a...
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