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Virtual reality consultancy and testing firm Fishbowl has told UploadVR they have expanded their services to include augmented reality testing. The company produced their first AR usability test with Inkhunter, an application that allows users to see how a tattoo might look on their body before actually putting ink to skin. Describing the reason behind the expansion, CEO...
There are a lot of different VR cameras in development, but I don’t think I’ve heard of one for capturing light in extreme darkness before. NextVR, however, built one for exactly this purpose. The Newport Beach-based company is best known for its live-streaming in VR of concerts, sporting events and even political debates with proprietary...
Oculus Connect 4 is just a few months away; the developer conference returns to the San Jose convention center on October 11 and October 12. We’re expecting to see what’s new with the company during a busy keynote speech, but, until then, an initial list of sessions and workshops has been revealed for the two-day event....
You might not have heard of Here Be Dragons before, but you’ve probably heard of some of the projects the it’s worked on. Today, this VR and AR production studio is announcing the closure of a $10 million series A round of funding. Discovery Communications led this investment. Here Be Dragons has been creating both...
If you’ve been online, you’ve seen fake news. A team of graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University created a virtual reality game called Project Axon to raise awareness about how our own behavior on social media platforms can contribute to this problem. The team hails from the Entertainment Technology Center at CMU, a two-year master’s...
Hello, and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we delved into Hearthstone’s new expansion, Knights of the Frozen Throne. Also, Overwatch is getting Deathmatch modes, and we announced some exciting speakers for our GamesBeat 2017 conference. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: Intel’s 2014 Gamergate mistake...
ANALYSIS: Not even the dancing hot dog can cheer up Snap’s cranky investors. Only a few minutes into Snap’s earnings call Thursday, Evan Spiegel mentioned the popular hot-dog filter his company introduced last month, saying it may be “the world’s first augmented-reality superstar.” But it was too late. Even a beloved luminary like the breakdancing...
Nvidia keeps on raking in revenue from chips for artificial intelligence, game graphics, the Nintendo Switch game console, and self-driving cars. But we’ll have to listen to the conference call shortly to find out if cryptocurrency mining drove sales as well. The world’s biggest stand-alone maker of graphics chips and AI chips reported $2.2 billion...
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