This week sees the launch of the long-anticipated live action remake of beloved anime movie, Ghost in the Shell, starring Scarlett Johansson. As you probably guessed, there’ll be a VR experience tying into the movie too. This isn’t just any old 360 video, though; this is a new Oculus Studios project, created as a collaboration...
Valve’s SteamVR Tracking system is great for VR but certainly not limited to it. For developers, hackers, researchers, and more who might have use for an inexpensive high accuracy, low latency, 6 DOF positional tracking system, it’s possible to use the new Vive Trackers or controllers (even with a single base station) without needing to...
An article published this week by IT Brief discusses why IT professionals should care about Augmented Reality. Augmented Reality consumes lots of data but mobile phones, BYOD and shadow IT has prepared IT professionals for an Augmented Reality revolution. This author believes that the biggest problem IT professionals will face will be data. Although most...
Held from May 8-11th in Silicon Valley at the San Jose Convention Center, NVIDIA’s GTC 2017 session schedule is chock full of deep tech talks that we’re looking forward to. Among them, Senior NVIDIA Research Scientist Anjul Patney will overview the company’s latest learnings from their study of the ‘perceptually-based’ approach to foveated rendering. Simply...
Nate Mitchell, Head of Rift at Oculus I had a chance to catch up with Oculus’ Nate Mitchell at GDC where I asked him about privacy in VR. Oculus has delegated the design and maintenance of their privacy policy to their parent company of Facebook so that Oculus can focus on providing the best VR...
The Vive Tracker, a ‘puck’-like device designed to attach to objects to track them in VR via the SteamVR Tracking system, went on sale this week after 1,000 units went out to developers earlier this year. One developer aptly demonstrated the tracking performance by juggling a trio of Trackers in VR. We’ve seen people juggle...
The first year of high-end virtual reality is over, and it’s a good time to look back at the best games for one of the major platforms in this sector In March 2016, Oculus VR launched its Rift headset. We’ve now spent the last 12 months using and experimenting with the device, and the head-mounted...
Listen to the GamesBeat Decides podcast GB Decides on Facebook Watch live on Twitch Watch on YouTube Subscribe on iTunes, Google Play Music, or Stitcher. Subscribe to the RSS. The Nintendo Switch may not have the power or years of releases of the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, but it may have something that Sony and Microsoft want more than...
It’s time to get mighty and morphin’ in Minecraft. Microsoft is bringing a Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers skin pack to Minecraft on consoles, mobile, and Windows 10. The Power Rangers pack is available today for anyone playing on devices like Xbox One, iPhone, or basically any other version of Minecraft short of the original Java-based PC...
Flow State Media has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for a music virtual reality game, Guitar Godz VR. The San Francisco company says its concept is the next evolution of rock music games, as it allows players to step onstage in fully immersive VR. It merges concert images with a VR experience that lets you...
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