Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage on Tuesday at the company’s F8 developers conference to kick off the event with a major look into the future and a very cool surprise for attendees. See also: Facebook’s Surround camera captures 360-degree video in 8K But before he dived into tech, Zuck doubled...
So much mystery has cloaked the heavily funded startup known as Magic Leap that nearly any tidbit of information sets off a new round of speculation The latest morsel slipping from behind the company’s curtain of secrecy is a patent awarded to the company on Tuesday that includes drawings of a device described as a...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Microsoft’s vision of “natural computing” will be a significant departure from the keyboard-and-mouse combination we’re all familiar with today — but several moving parts have to come together in order to make it work. Namely, those include touchscreens, smart pens and augmented-reality headsets. SEE ALSO: Microsoft wants a piece of the VR...
It’s early days for virtual reality, but that isn’t stopping the tech giants (except for Apple) from tripping over themselves to be the leader in the budding space. You can now add to that list Microsoft, which is turning its augmented reality (AKA “mixed” reality) technology, HoloLens, into a broader platform that incorporates VR as...
The mobile game’s 21m players are bulk buying ‘PokéCoins’ from Apple’s app store, one brokerage firm says Apple stands to rake in $3bn in revenue from the Pokémon Go craze in the next one to two years as gamers buy “PokéCoins” from its app store, according to analysts. The augmented reality game, published by Niantic...
At a Guardian Live event, games editor Keith Stuart asks a panel of designers and programmers what the advances in artificial intelligence mean for games and the people who play them? Subscribe and review: iTunes, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud & Acast The success of Pokémon Go suggests that augmented reality (AR) games will be big business....
The wildly popular mobile game is a Pokétopian fantasy that has flooded our world with good feelings – and timing could be everything behind its success What has technology offered us in these dark days of violence and fear? Silicon Valley’s technologies are more pervasive than ever, its dark and toneless luxury gadgets, its social...
Riding the Pokémon Go wave but stuck on training your Pokémon to fight in gyms? Haven’t quite mastered when to tap and when to swipe? Look no further Two weeks in, Pokémon Go fever continues, but as new players join it’s getting difficult to compete in gyms. Here’s some advanced tips to help you get...
It’s the hottest game in the world right now, but what do games developers think of Pokémon Go, and where do they think its success will take augmented reality? Pokémon Go hit the UK app store right smack in the middle of Brighton’s game developer conference Develop, and it seemed suddenly the entire indie community...
Another veil of mystery fell away from “mixed reality” company Magic Leap on Thursday as it announced a strategic partnership with Lucasfilm, the company behind the Star Wars franchise And to kick that partnership off, Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB (a branch of the company devoted to developing immersive content) posted a stunning video demonstration of the technology...
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