Gambling happens to be among the most established businesses across the globe. It has started growing even more since the latter half of the 20th century, and has grown more and more in the last few decades. With the advent of the internet, gambling has even gone online. These days, VR (Virtual Reality) has turned...
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Marketing a VR arcade requires creative messaging
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Bigscreen’s Huge 2019 Update Goes Live, Quest Support Confirmed
The much-anticipated 2019 update for social VR app Bigscreen is finally here. Well, in beta form at least. The 2019 update comes packed with a heap of features, many of which are highlighted in the trailer below. For starters, there are new environments, including an improved social lobby to meet other visitors and a new...
Sony’s Shawn Layden: ‘We’re Seeing Progress Towards VR 2.0 Games’
Sony’s Shawn Layden says the VR industry is starting to move into its second generation of content. Layden said as much during his keynote speech at this year’s DICE conference. He began by speaking about how it’s still early for the new tech, adding that “much of VR is one dot out, and it still...
Medivis has launched its augmented reality platform for surgical planning
After two years of development, Medivis, a New York-based company developing augmented reality data integration and visualization tools for surgeons, is bringing its first product to market. The company was founded by Osamah Choudhry and Christopher Morley who met as senior residents at NYU Medical Center. Initially a side-project, the two residents roped in some...
Asteroid is building a human-machine interaction engine for AR developers
When we interact with computers today we move the mouse, we scroll the trackpad, we tap the screen, but there is so much that the machines don’t pick up on — what about where we’re looking, the subtle gestures we make and what we’re thinking? Asteroid is looking to get developers comfortable with the idea...
DeMagnete VR Is A Magnetizing Puzzler Coming To All Major Platforms This Year
DeMagnete is an upcoming VR puzzle game that has seemingly appeared out of nowhere. In development by a medium-sized indie team called BitCake Studio of about 11 people in Brazil (according to a Reddit post) DeMagnete is an adventure about solving physics puzzles using magnets. At the start of DeMagnete you wake up in a...
Shadow Legend VR RPG Releases On Rift And Vive Feb. 21
Shadow Legend has quickly become one of the most anticipated upcoming VR RPGs of the year, despite the small team and limited budget. When the game was first announced, then expanded on in a subsequent trailer, it clearly looks to scratch a very specific itch a lot of people seem to have for fantasy-themed adventure...
‘So…What Really Did Happen With Palmer [Luckey]’
A book out next week tells the story of the founding of Oculus VR based on hundreds of interviews across several years. I read an early version of the Harper Collins book by Console Wars author Blake Harris. We’ve decided to refrain reporting certain elements of the book until we verify information, or until we...
Audica Is A VR Rhythm Music Shooter From Harmonix Coming In March
Harmonix announced a brand new VR rhythm game on Twitter today called Audica. Based on the footage it looks like it’s a mixture of first-person shooter mechanics with the same style of rhythm-based music gameplay the developer has become known for. Other than the announcement tweet and debut trailer we know basically nothing about Audica...