For more than a year reports have surfaced that HTC might be looking for a buyer for either some or all of its business. Today, the company halted the sale of its stock which could mean the moment is at hand. Rumors have also suggested Google might be the most likely buyer. The Silicon Valley tech...
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I Expect You To Die’s Free New Level Detailed Ahead Of October Launch
Schell Games’ I Expect You To Die has made more than $1 million in revenue for the company, and new content is on the way soon. This week the developer announced a free new level that will be hitting all versions of the VR title in October. In this new level you’ll find yourself aboard...
Enthusiast Hacks Together Headset & 3D Game for the 34 Year Old Commodore 64
The Commodore 64—a renowned 8-bit home computer system that debuted in 1983—may be approaching antique status at 34 years old, but one enthusiast has seen fit to make sure it doesn’t get left out of the VR craze. An enthusiast going by the alias ’64jim64′ has hacked together an impressive project for the beloved personal...
Is Body Image from Perception or Attitude? – Studying Anorexia with VR Self-avatars
Do patients with anorexia nervosa suffer from body image distortion due to how they perceive their body or is it due to attitudinal beliefs? Betty Mohler has been using VR technologies to study whether body representation is more perceptual or conceptual. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/d1icj85yqthyoq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Voices-of-VR-576-Betty-Mohler.mp3 Mohler captured a 3D body scan of...
Valve’s review-bomb fix won’t fix review bombing
The customer review is a relatively young form of criticism, but consumers have already unlocked some of its creative power with memorable and hilarious Amazon reviews. Of course, the internet has turned these into weapons against creators they don’t like or are upset with. The practice is so common among gaming fans that it has...
Why did Lawbreakers and Agents of Mayhem bomb? GamesBeat Decides
Fall is upon us, and we are gasping for breath under a deluge of games. That’s one of the reasons this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast is extra long. We spend a ton of time talking about games before diving into some news, but the big topic this week is all about big...
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner – Mars brings VR mech fighting to PC
Giant fighting robots typically aren’t spry in fiction or in real life (I’ve seen documentaries about Area 51 on the History Channel), but only the fastest mech suits are welcome in Konami’s latest PC port. Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner – Mars is an updated version of the 2003 PlayStation 3 classic, and...
Morpholio’s Trace uses augmented reality to give artists accurate measurements
Morpholio is introducing new measurement tool for its interior design app Trace, enabling artists and designers to use Apple’s augmented reality technology to precisely measure rooms and the objects in them in an automated fashion. The company is also introducing a new app, Board, which allows artists and interior designers to create better designs based...
Apple starts rolling out iOS 11 for all users
In line with plans announced last week at the Apple event introducing iPhone X and other products, the company today began to roll out iOS 11 to iPhone and iPad users. Developers and members of the public have participated in public betas of the operating system since June, but Apple is now making iOS 11...
Wonder Workshop’s new CleverBot educational robots can grasp natural language
Wonder Workshop has unveiled two new CleverBots robots for children, dubbed Cue and Dot. The robots are designed to inspire children and teens to be creative and learn how to program robots. The robots from San Mateo, California-based Wonder Workshop are among many educational robots that are designed to get kids to understand computer science...