If you’re looking for the future of mobile, it may be time to stop staring at the palm of your hand and look instead toward the open roads and sky. On Monday, the ginormous trade show Mobile World Congress will open its 2017 edition in Barcelona where about 100,000 people are expected. While there will...
Valve today released a new tool called Steam Audio that represents the fruit of its purchase of Impulsonic in January. The tech promises sound which very realistically responds to a virtual environment and would serve as an improvement over the standard 3D audio. In the demo video below you can hear the audio change as...
I’m scared of roller coasters. Not heights, not speed, not intricate examples of mechanical engineering: roller coasters. I am specifically, and dreadfully, terrified or riding roller coasters. This is the story of me riding a roller coaster. Gulp. Last week, my wife and I were received an invitation from Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, California,...
This week, Tech.eu tracked 14 technology M&A transactions and 65 tech funding deals totaling €200 million (about $211 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel. Here’s an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week: 1) Apple has acquired Tel Aviv, Israel-based Realface, a machine learning startup whose facial recognition technology can...
It isn’t easy to marshal the will to create a human colony on Mars. It’s an expensive project, and to pull it off, you need a vision. To build that vision, a scientist at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) turned to a video game company. Blackbird Interactive, a Canadian game developer, has built an interactive...
Welcome to virtual reality, InExile. The long-time independent studio announced The Mage’s Tale today. It’s an action-RPG for the Oculus Rift and its Touch controllers, and it should come out later this year. Its setting is in the world of The Bard’s Tale, and it’s InExile’s first foray into virtual reality software — which market researcher SuperData...
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we reviewed the PlayStation 4 exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn, Overwatch nabs another Game of the Year award, and the Miami Heat get into esports. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: Should you bring up Trump’s travel ban politics at a...
The game that lets you be your very own John Wick-style badass is about to get harder. Superhot VR is getting some new modes and challenges in its Superhot VR Forever update that is coming out March 7. Superhot VR is a first-person shooter for Oculus Rift (requiring its Oculus Touch controllers) that lets players...
Virtual reality is ready to grow. Research firm SuperData released a new report predicting that VR hardware will earn $3.6 billion in 2017. That would be an increase of 142 percent over the previous year. It expects VR hardware to reach $17.8 billion by 2020. Above: VR market size 2016-2020. Image Credit: SuperData 2016 was a...
Dungeons & Dragons is heading into virtual reality, and its first battle ground is going to be a chess board. Wizards of the Coast and Experiment 7 announced Dungeon Chess today, which debuts sometime in 2017 (the press kit had said March 28, but the studio has since changed this) for the Oculus Rift for PCs...
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