SAN FRANCISCO — Anyone who was at Apple’s 2016 World Wide Developers Conference keynote will tell you it was jam-packed with software platform information. But it was also notable for what it didn’t contain. There were no hardware teases. No Apple Car mentions (aside from the Siri-CarPlay updates). And perhaps most tellingly, no virtual reality or augmented reality promises,...
Chief executive Tim Cook said the computing platform is going to be ‘huge’ as he announced third-quarter revenue was down 15% from last year Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has told investors that augmented reality is going to be “huge” and that the company is investing in the technology. Responding to a question about Pokémon Go...
Hit mobile game, made by Niantic, will have a ‘limited’ effect on Nintendo’s finances, the company has warned Nintendo’s share price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has plummeted 17% in one day, apparently due to investors belatedly discovering that the company doesn’t actually make Pokémon Go, the latest mobile gaming phenomenon. The company is still...
New technologies from games to the internet of things are integrating every aspect of our lives into a global network that serves monopoly capitalism From minefields in Bosnia to military bases in Indonesia, from Holocaust museums to Julian Assange’s embassy, Pokémon seem to be everywhere. As Pokémon Go takes over the world, Saudi clerics have...
How far should we believe the benefical claims made for the augmented reality game? A s with the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, in which one encounters something new and then cannot escape it, Pokémon Go has seemingly come from nowhere and is now everywhere. Pokémon No. I’ve felt great cynicism towards adults clutching phones and waving their...
Augmented reality Pokémon is a global blockbuster, but full of glitches; far better to settle down with a satisfying FPS or some Zelda-based hack and slash Android, iOS, the Pokémon Company, cert: 3★★ Continue reading… Source: Games review roundup: Pokémon Go; Hawken; Hyrule Warriors Legends DLC pack 2
Snapchat just made a pair of smart glasses people are genuinely into, and it appears Apple might want in on the smart glasses action, too. According to a report in Bloomberg, the company is considering making a foray into wearables by way of a pair of digital glasses. “People familiar with the matter,” who declined...
It’s no secret Snapchat is working on augmented reality glasses. The company has reportedly been staffing up a team to work on them and CEO Evan Spiegel has even been caught wearing them in public. Snapchat has now joined the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) suggesting it’s augmented reality glasses could be moving closer to...
While the first official Pokémon Go wearable is still several weeks away, that hasn’t stopped at least one enterprising developer from hacking together a wearable version of Nintendo’s hit mobile game. Patrick Cho, a developer at Intel, has succeeded in putting a very basic version of Pokémon Go onto his company’s augmented reality glasses. Though...
The incredibly secretive augmented reality startup Magic Leap showed off another demonstration of its technology this week, this time using Chinese apps. During a discussion with Alibaba CMO Chris Tung in China, Magic Leap’s chief marketing officer Brian Wallace gave audience members a look at how the technology works. The early look for Alibaba makes...
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