Virtual and augmented reality news
Originally launched in November last year as a PSVR exclusive, Crytek’s Robinson: The Journey (2016) made its way early this year to Oculus Rift via Oculus Home and also eventually Steam too. Critically missing however was official support for HTC Vive and any support for motion controllers. Now, Crytek has finally launched an update on Steam which includes official support for HTC Vive,...
Update: Konami is in fact remaking the second Zone of the Enders game for PSVR, not the first. We’ve got the trailer below. Another beloved gaming series is coming to Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR): Zone of the Enders. Anubis: Zone of the Enders Mars was just announced at Sony’s 2017 Tokyo Game Show. All we...
Market researcher App Annie announced today that it will now be tracking over 5,000 Android apps in China. It reports that 10 percent of the top 1,000 apps in China are mobile games. The Google Play Store is still noticeably absent in China, though it’s currently installed on about 3.6 percent of the phones according...
Entrepreneurs building companies around augmented reality, virtual reality and computer vision have a new funding source to help kick-start their businesses. Shasta Ventures announced a new “Camera Fund” today that’s designed to provide an early infusion of cash for those companies. Shasta expects to provide 20-30 companies with $100,000 each, prior to even their seed...
The potential of AR is firmly into the spotlight for global technology companies. Keen not to miss out on what some say could be bigger than the smartphone itself, Chinese tech juggernauts Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and others are investing heavily in AR through mobile games and advertising experiences. In this piece, we’ll share three key...
Most virtual reality games are leaving me cold these days. The latest shooting gallery doesn’t even register in my brain anymore, and even the more original games have to get some buzz before I’ll try them. Thankfully, Lone Echo has picked up enough hype that I took the time to sit down with my Oculus...
On the heels of settling a sexual harassment lawsuit earlier this month, the founders of virtual reality startup Upload have broken their public silence with an apology for how they handled the issue. The lawsuit was filed in the spring and was settled earlier in September. However, it was apparently only as the New York Times was...
While ARKit and ARCore are poised to bring AR experiences to millions of mobile devices, one company is poised to anchor those experiences anywhere in the world with just a set of geographic coordinates. The geospatial augmented reality platform Aireal enables developers to place digital content indoors or outdoors based on latitude, longitude, and altitude...
I’m weary of calling anything we see with VR a “first-ever” as the technology has been around for decades and people often pop up to point out things have happened in the past that might technically be the “first-ever.” Nevertheless, many people would likely be interested to know Germany-based Arthur Technologies just closed its funding...
I’ve always thought that more VR games should have survival mechanics. The genre lends itself so well to the immersion afforded from the VR medium and the sense of isolation needed to really inspire survival instincts is unrivaled. Luckily a handful of titles like ARK: Survival Evolved and The Solus Project are holding the torch...
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