OPINION: Facebook’s Oculus made waves three times this week. First, the company cut prices for its Oculus Rift VR headset and Touch controller by $200. Then a rumor suggested Facebook will be launching a $200 standalone VR headset next year. And finally, the company made the aforementioned two-product bundle permanent and promised to shave $100...
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we checked out Final Fantasy XII’s remaster, Star Wars: Battlefront II announced when its beta test will start, and RPG maker InXile got a big investment. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: Game industry’s leaders share more wisdom PC Gaming Weekly:...
Summer used to be a slow time for games. After the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game industry show in Los Angeles, everybody took off on vacations and then hunkered down to ship games for the fall. But this isn’t the model anymore. The news keeps coming on all fronts, such as from virtual...
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with shell, gaming, Task Manager, mixed reality, and delivery optimization improvements. This is the seventh build of the upcoming Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, which is slated to arrive later this year (likely in September). Windows 10 is a service, meaning it was built in...
GUEST: Games software and hardware combined are set to drive more than $150 billion revenue for the first time ever in 2017, with software taking around three-quarters and hardware around one-quarter of the total (Note: this is games software/hardware combined — non-hardware revenues could deliver over $110 billion globally this year). With a compound annual...
Facebook is expected to debut a $200 wireless Oculus VR headset in 2018, according to a report based on unnamed sources by Bloomberg writer Mark Gurman. We’ve confirmed some details related to the story. The new headset will work without being tethered to a smartphone or PC, the report said. If that’s true, it could make...
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Venture capital is still out there for augmented and virtual reality studios, but they’re finding it continues to be a challenge to get enough consumers to pony up for games on the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, and mobile platformers. In a recent interview from the Gamelab event in Spain, GamesBeat lead reporter Dean...
You don’t need a controller to play Lila’s Tale; you just need to look. It’s a VR platformer that you interact with by directing your gaze at where you want its heroine to move. Only a demo is available at the moment, but the full game is slated for a third-quarter release later this year...
Industrial Promotion and #VR, #AR #MR The 29.06.2017 The leading and most innovative association in Switzerland SSVAR – Swiss Society of Virtual and Augmented Reality goes further in promoting innovation and technology transfer in the field of virtual and augmented reality! Concrete: Nearly 40 industrialists from #Switzerland will meet on 29 June in Geneva to discover...
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