Earlier this year Oculus announced support for Chromecast around the same time Google’s Daydream revealed it too would be adding the feature. In case you are unfamiliar, Chromecast is a feature from Google included in many recent televisions that makes it easy to broadcast to the TV from phones, apps and computers. If your TV doesn’t have...
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Magic Leap hints at a big reveal
It’s increasingly looking like mysterious augmented reality technology Magic Leap could finally be unveiled in the coming months. A recent Bloomberg report stated that the company was looking to raise an extra $500 million in investment as well as ship out early units within the next few months, potentially costing between $1,500 and $2,000. Last week the first...
Top 10 AR development pitfalls
GUEST: The release of Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore has sparked a burst of creative energy and a wave of demos from developers all over the world. And there is a growing possibility that a paradigm shift in computing could be just around the corner when AR takes over mobile as the dominant consumer platform....
Intel launches hyperfast Optane SSD 900P storage with special Star Citizen ship
Intel is bringing some of its most impressive storage technology to consumers for the first time with its new Intel Optane SSD 900P Series of products. These are Intel’s latest PCIe NVMe 3.0 SSDs that provide much faster read and write times than the aging SATA connection standard. The 900P comes in 480GB and 280GB...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Super Mario Odyssey’s perfection, and Destiny 2’s big first month
Hello, and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Dragon Ball Fighterz gets a release date, we kill Nazis in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and Animal Crossing is going camping on Android and iOS. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: Inside Microsoft’s Inclusive Technologies Lab PC...
PC Gaming Weekly: Meet your Destiny (2)
Our destiny is here, PC gamers. It’s time to go see our ol’ pal Xur. Yesterday, Activision launched Destiny 2 on PC. The series skipped the platform its first time around, and this time, it’s part of an experiment from the publisher of Call of Duty and other big hits. Destiny 2, you see, isn’t on...
Diminished reality will have as much power as AR for retailers
GUEST: It’s an exciting time for augmented reality. With new AR platforms launching from the biggest names in tech over the last few months, including Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore, retailers like Ikea, Wayfair, and Anthropologie have already released ARKit-powered apps, opening the door to consumer acceptance of AR as viable retail technology. But across...
Shaul Olmert, Samsung’s new toys, and how to grow a community of over 80 million — VB Engage
This week, Travis and Stewart interview the amazing Shaul Olmert, who has grown Playbuzz from scratch to an audience of over 80 million. He tells us what it takes to not only make that possible, but maintain the community he helped build. In the news, we talk about Samsung’s developer conference and the new products...
Resolution Games’ swashbuckling VR adventure Narrows sets sail for Google Daydream
Resolution Games is announcing its next virtual reality game is Narrows, a pirate release for the Google Daydream mobile VR headset. Narrows is the Stockholm, Sweden-based company’s fourth game, after Bait! (fishing in VR), Solitaire Jester, and the minigame collection Wonderglade. And it shows the small studio is still all-in on VR and willing to...
The VR industry needs to avoid intrusive ads for as long as possible
GUEST: Monetization in VR is a tricky subject. There are only suggestions, or experiments, on what could serve, but it’s a tough proposition while the industry continues to wade through its hype cycle and content creators remain to be reluctant to commit to creating a steady pipeline of immersive experiences to attract mainstream adoption. And...