For its first few months of availability, Google only worked with a select group of developers on Daydream-compatible apps. While the approach allowed Google to work closely with partners and carefully curate content for the new Daydream platform in its opening months, it also severely limited the number of apps one could download for the...
(The Bridge) – Tokyo-based startup Vaqso unveiled their device Vaqso VR, which adds a sense of smell to VR games, etc., when attached to a head-mounted display (HMD) at their press conference held in Tokyo on Tuesday. Vaqso was established by Kentaro Kawaguchi of ZaaZ, a Japanese company involved in promotional services using odors for...
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we play Resident Evil VII (which or may not be scary, depending on which of our staff you ask), Overwatch passes 25 million players, and a new Pokémon game releases for mobile. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: How Warner Bros. rescued...
Blueprint Reality has launched a virtual reality physics puzzle game called Awaken on Steam Early Access for the HTC Vive and Oculus Touch. The Vancouver, Canada-based company has launched the game as part of an effort to create more original content on VR platforms, which are expected to generate $25 billion in revenue by 2021,...
Fishing fans with Google’s newest virtual reality device have a new game to check out. Resolution Games announced today that its VR fishing game Bait is now available for the Google Daydream headset. Bait fiirst came out last March for Samsung Gear VR, where it has earned 1 million players according to Resolution. That is an impressive number...
Days after departing China-based phone maker Xiaomi, Hugo Barra is rejoining Silicon Valley and has been hired by Facebook. In his new role, he’ll lead all of the social networking company’s virtual reality efforts, including Oculus. The decision was announced by Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, who explained: “Hugo shares my belief that virtual and augmented reality...
Google’s Tilt Brush app is evolving from a new way for artists to create into an important new tool in a developer’s arsenal. Back in October 2016 the search engine giant open-sourced the Tilt Brush Toolkit, a set of scripts that allows developers to utilize .tilt files (your saved creations) in various ways, bringing them into...
Augmented and virtual reality are slowly but surely being integrated into shopping experiences worldwide. At CES for example, Gap and Asus teamed up for an AR shopping app that may point toward the future of mobile shopping engagement. And previously we covered Adidas and their promotion of a new soccer shoe using virtual reality throughout Europe....
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Nintendo reveals new Fire Emblem games, the PlayStation 4 wins December, and we look at the upcoming strategy game Halo Wars 2. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: 10 predictions for games in 2017 Did Nintendo’s Switch reveal set the new...
Every year I make wildly inaccurate predictions about the future of games, and that time has come again. I go through this exercise not only to suffer great embarrassment, but but also to sharpen my thinking by looking back over the years in an attempt to find the future. I have written more than 13,000...
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