SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
Thousands of games came out on iOS and Android in 2016, and no one could play them all. But that’s not going to stop us from picking the 5 best. As part of the GamesBeat Decides podcast, the crew argued over which games should make the cut. As you might expect, a few big-name apps...
In 2016, we finally got high-end virtual reality headsets from Oculus, HTC, and Sony, but it was a yellow-electric rat and the adult-film industry that made the most noise when it comes to the next generation of computing platforms. Since most of the people who normally generate the headlines in the virtual reality and augmented...
The year 2016 was an interesting one for startups. Between high valuations and the glory of reaching unicorn status, entrepreneurs have been frenetically chasing private investors — who were more than willing to deliver the cash — and thereby delayed their entry onto the public market. Yet there was significantly less VC funding than in 2015....
Anyone that’s tried The Lab, the free mini-game collection from Valve that’s available on Steam, knows that Longbow is one of the standout experiences. Standing atop a castle wall, you shoot down wave after wave of little stick figures as they go running by. Some of them wear armor to take more hits as the...
When it comes to VR sales data, most companies aren’t playing their cards close to their chest so much as taping the cards to themselves. We’ve had to rely on software sales to get some inkling of an idea at how headsets and their software are performing. Thanks to Android’s built-in statistics for apps, we...
The Power Rangers have persisted for years as a staple of television for younger crowds, though many of us still cherish the Rangers in our older age. The franchise lives on through so many different iterations, but has only received a theatrical film adaptation a handful of times. In March of 2017, the Rangers will...
MSI will announce the winners of its “Leading VR Experience” competition tomorrow. The overall winner will take home the lion’s share of an $80,000 prize pool as well as several other electronics and accolades. According to MSI they received over 600 applications for the contest and those entries have now been whittled down to a...
In this episode we discuss one of the main topics in modern VR – Storytelling, with one of the biggest German experts, Astrid Kahmke. Hackvention 2016 was a very productive time for us. First, we discussed wireless VR with Nicole and Dominic (which happened right around the Upload’s hands-on with TPCAST). Second, we took a...
I have to admit when I saw Twilight Pioneers for the first time I was more than a little skeptical. A free, first-person action RPG that used Daydream’s laser point controller as a sword didn’t sound like it would be very successful. Normally, this might be the kind of game we skip over. It was...
Even after the belated release of The Last Guardian, Fumito Ueda remains an interesting figure in the Japanese gaming industry, and someone we’d love to see work in VR. Ueda’s games have a distinct feeling to them. Their crumbling ruins and archaic worlds make them unlike anything else in the medium despite inspiring many other...
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