GUEST: Historically, VR and AR have been seen as two separate technologies both having unique case uses. VR has been embraced by gaming enthusiasts as a way to make their gameplay more immersive and relies on a display that is worn over the eyes, tricking the mind into believing it is somewhere else. AR uses...
Lucasfilm is bringing another tiny piece of the Star Wars universe into virtual reality with the latest experience from its experimental ILMxLab technology group. Star Wars: Droid Repair Bay puts you in the role of a mechanic for the Resistance against the New Order from The Force Awakens. Droid Repair Bay works with HTC Vive and Samsung Gear...
Microsoft announced today that its HoloLens mixed reality headset is coming to 29 new markets across Europe. Last year, the company launched HoloLens, serving up a spellbinding digital experience via a headset that combines virtual and physical worlds through a rich set of sensors. The headset first started shipping to developers in the U.S. last March, and HoloLens has been...
San Francisco startup Rylo is launching a 360-degree video camera today that emphasizes smooth videos that are easy to share. Created by a team of former Instagram and Apple engineers, Rylo has stabilization software and a smartphone app that helps eliminate some of the pains of traditional shooting, editing, and sharing of videos, said Rylo CEO...
GUEST: The ubiquity of smartphones and 4G networks in the last decade have changed our society and economy in dramatic ways. The most visible way in which society has transformed is that it’s become commonplace to see people staring at tiny 2D screens in their hands while tapping, pinching, and swiping on mobile content. The...
CCP Games is ending the development of its VR projects, closing its Atlanta studio, and selling its Newcastle team that worked on virtual reality games. CCP was one of the first companies to embrace VR, and it launched the space-sim shooter Eve: Valkyrie alongside the Oculus Rift headset in 2016. Like other multiplayer VR games,...
Sony revealed Blood & Truth during it Paris Games Week event today. Blood & Truth is a spy game featuring gadgets and guns. It is coming out for PlayStation VR. Blood & Truth showed a bit of a modern Bond vibe (its main character is even English). PlayStation VR came out last October and has sold over...
Sony is still working with developers to bring content to its PlayStation VR headset for the PlayStation 4, and the publisher showed off a number of those upcoming projects during a presentation at the Paris Games Week event today. PSVR has had spurts of new releases since it debuted last October with hits like Statik...
Acer might have just launched its very own VR headset, but the company is continuing to invest in the StarVR device, too. Last year, Acer revealed that it had partnered with StarVR creator Starbreeze to help design, manufacture and sell the device. Now Acer has revealed that it’s added $5 million to a joint investment...
FEATURE: It was with some confusion that I walked into a bustling lumberyard on the London outskirts of Wimbledon yesterday afternoon. Syren developer Hammerhead had promised something amazing to show me, but as I walked past lorries shifting materials and workers digging into fry-ups, I’d begun to wonder exactly what could be so spectacular. Then,...
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