Last week, Google teamed up with the London startup Improbable to enable even the smallest developers to develop massive online games at low costs. Improbable has created SpatialOS, software that enables small companies to create massive, cloud-based simulations for online games, mobile devices, and virtual reality projects. In doing so, it hopes to change the economics of...
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Insomniac’s The Unspoken once had a different name and direction
The Unspoken is a multiplayer virtual reality video game that was released earlier this month as a launch title for the Oculus Touch platform. The game turns you into a modern, urban wizard tasked with battling others of your kind for arcane supremacy. In The Unspoken you can blast fireballs from your hand, hurl police...
24 acquisitions in 2016 that reveal Europe and Israel as hotbeds of innovation
The year 2016 may be remembered for many things, from the emergence of self-driving cars into the mainstream to virtual reality’s stab at being more than a fad. But for those who follow M&A activity around the world, Europe produced some notable exits at the hands of some big-name U.S. tech companies. And a handful...
GamesBeat’s 10 biggest stories of the year
Guides, Pokémon, and porn. Those are some of the most common themes you’ll find in our 10 most popular stories of the year. Our staff wrote hundreds of articles in 2016, covering news, reviews, interviews, opinion pieces, and more. And while we love all of our stories, some of them — for whatever reason — blow...
‘Twas The Night Before Riftmas: A VR Holiday Poem
Happy Holidays from all of us here at UploadVR! To celebrate we’ve written a little poem for you. Enjoy: Twas the night before Riftmas, and all through the night the young Palmer Luckey was nowhere in sight; His headset was hung by the PC with care, In hopes that St. Zuckerberg soon would be...
3 Great VR Party Games to Play With Friends and Family This Holiday
VR is so new that one of the regular activities of VR headset owners is introducing other people to the technology. Usually that means putting one person in a headset and standing around while they take their turn. But a few great VR party games let people both inside and outside of VR participate in the...
Developer Spaces Dedicated to AR And VR Are Becoming More Popular Than Ever
We’ve seen a steady stream of physical spaces devoted to virtual reality and augmented reality popping up recently — hubs where VR and AR developers can share resources, experiment, and network. One of the first VR spaces was the Upload Collective in San Francisco, which launched at the beginning of the year as a hybrid coworking...
Microsoft HoloLens: Does anyone know where it’s going?
SAN FRANCISCO — HoloLens, Microsoft’s self-contained holographic computer, arrives in developers’ hands around the world today, but when they open those exquisitely designed black boxes, the devices they receive will largely be a mystery to them — both how they work and, more importantly, what they’re good for. At its Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft...
Field in View: My VR Highlights Of 2016
Whew. What a year, huh? Last December the VR community was left guessing as to when the Oculs Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR would really release, and 12 lightning-fast months later we have them all and a new headset from Google to boot. This industry continues to move at a dizzying pace, and we can’t...
AR Optics Company Lumus Secures Further $30M in Funding
Lumus Ltd. recently confirmed a $30 million funding round led by Quanta and HTC. Lumus is a leading provider and developer of augmented reality technology. Following from the $15 million funding led by Shanda Group and Crystal-Optech in June, Lumus Ltd. recently announced a $30 million Series C round of funding led by Quanta Computer,...