Epic Games is announcing today that its zany robot-shooting game called Robo Recall is available today as a free exclusive game for the Oculus Touch controllers and the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Raleigh, N.C.-based Epic Games made the announcement on stage during an event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The title...
Virtual reality just got a little cheaper today for PC owners. Oculus VR announced this morning that it’s cutting the price of both its Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD) and the hand-tracking Oculus Touch motion controllers by $100. Effective immediately, you can now pick up the Rift for $500 (down from $600), and a pair...
Epic Games, visual creation company The Mill, and car maker Chevrolet have created a film that uses the Unreal game engine to blend an animated car in real-time into a video that will be part of a television advertising campaign. The companies collaborated together on “The Human Race,” a real-time short film and augmented reality...
Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. And so when you ask which one of them has a bigger or a better business, you get some very different answers. I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of...
8i is making 3D holograms out of people with its augmented reality software. And the company is using it to welcome people its booth at the Game Developers Conference with a hologram of astronaut Buzz Aldrin. The company recently announced Holo, a consumer mobile augmented reality app that lets people express themselves with funny holograms. The Holo...
Roblox said that it has reached a milestone in user-generated games. It now has more than 1.7 million game creators on its Lego-like game platform. The social game world now has more than 48 million monthly active players and 22 million online games. The company announced the numbers at the Game Developers Conference 2017 as part...
The Oculus Rift is getting a new (and yet familiar) competitive experience. Blade & Soul: Table Arena is a spin-off of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Blade & Soul from South Korea developer NCsoft. The VR title uses the device’s Touch controllers to have players throwing characters into a battlefield, which march toward the enemy fortress and try...
HTC kicked off the Game Developers Conference with demos of new apps, including a VRSports app that lets you play Ping-Pong in virtual reality on the HTC Vive VR headset. The titles will join the 1,300 that are already available on the Vive, which was voted the top development platform for VR based on a...
Advanced Micro Devices is riding high on the pending introduction of its most competitive processors and graphics chips in years. This week, AMD is launching its Ryzen desktop processors for gamers, and it is unveiling its Vega-based graphics chips in the first half of this year. To make sure those technologies have the proper impact,...
Virtual reality firm Survios unveiled Sprint Vector, a new virtual reality game with an innovative system for moving a character in VR. In the game, you swing your arms to make your character run in the 360-degree VR world. It’s Survios’ second game. Like its predecessor Raw Data, it keeps you active and is meant to...
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