NextVR has made significant progress across different leagues when it comes to VR, from broadcasting NCAA football games and tailgating activities to providing highlight packages for the NFL despite their slower adoption of VR and 360-degree live-streaming. The NBA has been a bit more active in their partnership with NextVR, including VR as part of broadcast subscription packages, and putting...
We’ve already seen Valve tease the next generation of SteamVR controllers, now the company has offered a peak at a new base station. too. Company programmer Joe Ludwig showcased a prototype for the next iteration of the hardware at a press event inside the Valve offices earlier this month, captured on video by the Valve...
Back at CES we met a small creative studio with some big technical plans for the HTC Vive’s upcoming Tracker peripheral. The team’s name was Master of Shapes, and they were one of the groups that HTC had gathered to showcase some of the many applications for the new device. Specifically, they made a technical...
Our next speaker for our latest GamesBeat event is Richard Marks, a senior research engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment. He will talk about a variety of subjects at our GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, and tech create real-world magic. Last year, Marks spoke on “What Works in VR and What Doesn’t” at our GamesBeat 2016 event...
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we got to go inside Valve, PewDiePie causes controversy, and we went hands-on with Halo Wars 2. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: The esports scene keeps gaining momentum Hearthstone’s big changes soothe players worries while padding Blizzard’s wallet Nexon’s Owen Mahoney...
Peter Cuneo, former CEO of Marvel Entertainment, has joined virtual reality and augmented reality startup Uncorporeal Systems as chairman. The move shows that VR is already well on its way. The field is expected to become a $25 billion industry by 2021, according to tech advisor Digi-Capital. San Francisco-based Uncorporeal Systems will tap Cuneo’s vast...
The porn pros still want to play. YouPorn is sponsoring a professional Overwatch esports squad as part of its Team YP esports group. The roster includes several new faces and the surprise addition of Street Fighter V pro Valmaster, who is going to attempt to compete in both Capcom’s fighting game and Blizzard’s class-based team shooter. This marks...
One of the industry’s most popular game-making tools is getting a wave of improvements as well as support for a major upcoming console. Epic Games is updating its Unreal Engine toolkit to version 4.15. This is a toolkit that many developers use to build 3D games on consoles, PC, and mobile platforms. Games that use...
Smartphone maker HTC is working on a new kind of mobile virtual reality headset, according to a story from CNET. Chialin Chang, chief financial officer at Taiwan-based HTC, said that the new headset will be compatible with the company’s new flagship smartphone, the U Ultra. But he did not go into further details, nor say whether the device would...
Lytro may have had some setbacks in 2016, but it appears to be onto something. Investors have noticed the potential of the company’s light field technology, so much that Lytro has raised another round of funding, bringing in $60 million in new capital. The lead investor is Blue Pool Capital, which is affiliated with Alibaba...
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