Square Enix has brought its King Arthur-inspired digital card battler to virtual reality with Million Arthur VR: Character Command RPG. The publisher released Million Arthur VR in partnership with Vive Studios for the HTC Vive. It launched in Japan and China earlier this year, and it’s now available for $40 on Steam in the U.S.,...
Facebook’s Oculus division is making good progress on its next-generation virtual reality headset, dubbed Project Santa Cruz. It’s a standalone device that has no wires and does not have to be connected to a personal computer, leaving the wearer free to wander around a room in VR. It creates a liberating feeling that allows you...
Discord hosts dozens of Minecraft-related communities on its service, but it wants to give you an easy way to tell if you’re joining the Minecraft community. To help developers better reach out to their audiences, Discord is rolling out verified servers today. This will put a Twitter-like check mark on more than 100 official developer communities that...
SPONSORED: Presented by Intel “You don’t get 20 volunteers because they’re doing the same thing, you get 20 volunteers because they’re doing things that are important to their life.” Chris Matthews, CEO at Archetype Studios, clearly gets where games like this need to be. And by “like this”, he’s referring to the jetpack shooter, a...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new standalone virtual reality headset called the Oculus Go today at the Oculus Connect event in San Jose. It will launch in early 2018 for $200, with developer kits shipping in November. Head of Oculus VR Hugo Barra noted that it designed the Oculus Go to be lightweight and...
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announced an ambitious goal to make virtual reality accessible to everyone. “We are setting a goal,” he said. “We want to get a billion people in virtual reality.” Zuckerberg made the announcement at his company’s Oculus Connect event at the San Jose Convention Center. One of the key ways Facebook...
CableLabs, the research arm of the cable TV business, is announcing today that it is enabling full-duplex speeds on cable-delivered internet services. That means that your upload streams — which have typically been a lot slower — will be just as fast as your download streams. The CableLabs technology works on hybrid fiber-cable (HFC) networks, which...
This week, a friend of mine said he wanted to be able to play games like Dungeons & Dragons at a virtual table. Oh, no problem, I said — check out Roll20, an app that helps people gather for role-playing games online. But then he said, “No, I mean virtual as in virtual reality.” Well,...
GUEST: Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are game-changers for the enterprise, enabling real-time remote collaboration experiences that were simply not possible before. While these technologies have not yet gained traction at a mass-market level, they hold great promise as the most practical use case for immersive technologies. Skeptics correctly point out that VR...
Video games weren’t a big part of Oculus’s Connect 4 event today in San Jose. They took a backseat to things like the new standalone Oculus Go headset and the Rift Core 2.0‘s new user interface software. But the virtual reality company did reveal some new games and updates coming to Oculus devices. We’re included...
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