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4A Games, the studio behind the Metro series, has partnered with Del Rey Books and New York Times bestselling author Christie Golden to produce an official eBook novella that lets you dive further into the upcoming Oculus Touch first-person shooter ARKTIKA.1. image courtesy 4A Games Golden is no stranger to gaming fiction, evidenced by her previous work on novels...

It may seem a little weird that two companies who both make phones and should be in competition with each other have teamed up, but that’s just what Nokia and Xiaomi have done in a surprising bit of news. The two companies have signed a cross-licensing patent deal and say they will be looking at...

When Ben Taft and Matt Stern, two of the co-founders of Mira, opened up the box of the Prism AR headset for me for the first time I’ll be honest: I wasn’t that impressed. Having tried the HoloLens and Meta 2 I’d seen what extremely expensive AR devices were capable of (again: not that impressed...

If room scale VR has taught me one thing, it’s that I love to dodge stuff. Last second ducks and near-miss steps really show the power of the presence that the best VR experiences provide and makes us feel a little like Indiana Jones. It looks like we’ll be doing plenty of evading when Gates...

Created by Helios Interactive, Echelon is a multi-player board game played in Hololens mixed-reality that, as an proof of concept, gives us a look into what sort of games we might be playing in the future when we’re not engaged in the many augmented reality productivity-based activities like navigating with turn-by-turn directions or skyping with a work colleague....

If you’ve ever worked at a fast food or fast-casual restaurant, you know how the first day inevitably goes. The manager sits you down in some store room, wheels in a TV and makes you watch a training video that’s about as immersive as watching paint dry. Honeygrow, a Philadelphia-based chain of Asian-fusion fast-casual restaurants, is...