Tag: #VR #AR

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup. This time, Horizon: Zero Dawn has a strong first two weeks of sales, we get a look at Sonic’s next two games, and YouTube gets exclusive broadcasting rights to a big Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: Experiential...

I attended the Experiential Technology Conference (XTech) in San Francisco this week to hear talks about creating virtual experiences that truly immerse you in another world. It showed me that virtual reality has only scratched the surface. I liked the event, curated by Zack Lynch of Jazz Venture Partners, because it reminded me of the...

DMG Entertainment, the Hollywood Studio that made Iron Man 3, is moving into virtual reality. Dan Mintz, cofounder of the Beverly Hills, Calif.-based company, announced the launch of DMG VR, which is dedicated to entertainment that mixes storytelling with the new medium of VR. Arcturus, the first incubated company under the DMG VR umbrella, will...

Swords and zombies did well last month. The gaming industry generated $724 million in revenues in the United States last month, according to data-tracking firm The NPD Group. That’s down 21 percent year-over-year from $918.7 million. All segments — hardware, console and PC software, and accessories —  were down compared to the same period in...

Survios has published its Raw Data virtual reality shooter game is debuting on the Oculus Rift and Touch VR platform today. And the Oculus players will be able to play together with HTC Vive VR headset owners in cross-platform matches. Los Angeles-based Survios released Raw Data last year on the HTC Vive. It announced that the...

Seamus Blackley was one of the renegades at Microsoft who created the original Xbox game console, launched in 2001. (Somebody I know wrote a book about that). He went on to a long career in games and as an agent at Creative Artists Agency. More recently, he cofounded a mobile game company called Innovative Leisure,...

Virtual reality is an incredible technology that can whisk you away from your life, but it doesn’t make the things in your life actually vanish. And sometimes that might mean you’re going to sit on your cat. Above: Good kitty! I sat on my cat because of VR, but thankfully some developers are already working...

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Seamus Blackley was one of the renegades at Microsoft who created the original Xbox game console, launched in 2001. (Somebody I know wrote a book about that). He went on to a long career in games and as an agent at Creative Artists Agency. More recently, he cofounded a mobile game company called Innovative Leisure,...