It’s 2017, and — as we all know — this means that presidential politics no longer affect us and all celebrities from the 1970s and 1980s are now immortal. But the GamesBeat Decides podcast? Well that never changes. Except for when one of us has a kid! Your host, Jeffrey Grubb, is about to have his first...
Linden Lab‘s Sansar virtual reality world is taking shape. The company is announcing today that it is inviting hundreds of new creators into its test, and it is also opening up a marketplace where users can sell virtual items for real money. That marketplace will enable monetization for the denizens of Sansar right from the...
It isn’t easy to stand out among the virtual reality headsets available today. But Merge VR is trying to do something different with its holographic toy, the Holo Cube, which lets users interact with holograms through augmented reality technology. The Holo Cube is a block that you hold in front of your face while looking through...
HoloLamp debuted its augmented reality projector system today at CES 2017, the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas this week. The projector makes it possible for augmented reality to interact with real objects, and no special glasses or smartphone are required to see its animated images. The result looks a lot like that scene in Star...
A number of new virtual reality (VR) headsets and technologies went to market in 2016, but without content, VR viewers are little more than futuristic-looking ski goggles. And this is why we’re starting to see a number of VR cameras enter the fray, including Nokia’s $45,000 Ozo, Facebook’s $30,000 Surround, GoPro’s $15,000 Odyssey, and upstarts...
Reliefband Technologies has unveiled the Reliefband Neurowave, a wearable that offers drug-free relief for nausea. The company is also offering relief for people who get motion sickness from virtual reality headsets. VR headsets will have a huge presence at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. The company says that motion...
Osterhout Design Group is unveiling two augmented reality smartglasses that will use the high-end Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 mobile processors. ODG makes AR smartglasses that can overlay computer-generated imagery on top of the real world, helping you see the world around you in new ways. Augmented reality is expected to be a $90 billion business worldwide by...
Qualcomm has big ambitions for its Snapdragon 835 processor. The company is unveiling more details about the flagship mobile processor today at a press event at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas. The processor has 3 billion transistors and is built in an advanced 10-nanometer manufacturing process, enabling advances in battery life,...
Computer vision is working better than it once did, and EyeSight Technologies is one of the companies taking advantage of that. The company is revealing new hand and finger gestures for the second generation of its Singlecue gesture-recognition technology. With Singlecue Gen 2 and a wave of a hand, a pinch of a finger, or a palm...
Hubblo is launching a new 360-degree camera to enable personal virtual reality broadcasting. Hong Kong-based Hubblo is announcing the Hubblo VR camera — a 3D livestreaming device that can stream at 4K — at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. The all-in-one camera will shoot 4K video and debut...
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