For years now Minecraft has been empowering millions of users by allowing them to create pretty much whatever they want in virtual worlds. But what if you could bring it into the real world? That’s exactly what South African developer Speak Geek is working on. Using Google’s new ARCore and Apple’s ARKit platforms, which enable...
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This Company is Building an AR Version of ‘Minecraft’ for iOS and Android
South African startup Speak Geek? recently teased an update to their project that aims to replicate the official Microsoft version of Minecraft for HoloLens, the company’s $3000 AR headset, and put it on mobile devices capable of running Google’s ARCore and Apple’s ARKit. This is the company’s second attempt at bringing Minecraft to AR, the first taking place in 2015 right...
LG SteamVR Headsets Resurfaces At Korean VR Festival
We were beginning to wonder if we would see LG’s SteamVR headset again this year, but it’s just been spotted at a VR festival in Korea. The official Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Twitter account just posted a fresh image of the headset and its controllers as shown at the Korean VR Festival. Take a look...
Apple’s ARKit will innovate the everyday
GUEST: In today’s digital economy, we see a constant rotation of new, innovative technology emerging on the market. While some platforms are built exclusively for consumers, others are designed with an enterprise purpose in mind. The most powerful pieces of technology, however, do both. And augmented reality (AR) is the perfect example. Some of the...
Apple’s AR quest begins with … poop
ANALYSIS: People who watch technology closely — especially those optimistic about VR and AR — are scratching their heads this week trying to understand how Apple “undersold” those features so significantly. At the Apple September Keynote, there was no mention of VR at all despite the iPhone X being the first device from Apple to...
Review: ‘The Gallery: Call of the Starseed’
The Gallery: Call of the Starseed (2016) is a first-person adventure from Cloudhead Games that’s unashamedly a ‘first’ in many categories. As a Vive launch title, it was one of the most cutting-edge adventure games of its time, and although it’s showing its age at this late review date, it remains an intriguing, well-realized cinematic experience that will...
HP’s PC Chief Ron Coughlin Talks Expanding To VR
PCs aren’t dead yet. Just ask Ron Coughlin, head of HP‘s computer business. The Palo Alto, California company’s PC business has growth at about 11 percent in revenues, year to date. It has become the No. 1 PC company again, as of a couple of quarters. Coughlin believes HP is taking share from its Windows PC...
Justice League, Magic Leap And Quake II: The Five Biggest Stories In VR This Week
Here are the biggest stories in VR over the past five days” Zero Latency VR Comes To Vegas The bright lights of Vegas have now been introduced to the flashy flair of VR and it looks like it’s a match made in heaven. We got an inside look at Zero Latency’s new multiplayer VR experience...
Criterion confirms: No Star Wars: Battlefront 2 VR
A few months ago it looked like VR support had been all but confirmed for DICE and Criterion Games’ Star Wars: Battlefront 2. Sadly, it’s now looking like there won’t be any integration after all. Criterion’s Matt Webster and John Stanley confirmed as much in a recent interview with Metro. When asked if there would be...
HTC trademark points to standalone VR headset’s name: Vive Focus
We’re expecting to find out more about HTC’s Vive-branded standalone VR headset in a few weeks’ time, but it looks like the name has already surfaced online. Lets Go Digital has uncovered two filings from HTC for a ‘head mounted display’ named Vive Focus. One is from the European Union Intellectual Property Office while the other...