Despite recording a 33.7 percent drop in worldwide shipments of VR headsets during 2018’s second quarter, IDC is forecasting a sunny outlook for future quarters. The explanation: Last year’s numbers were “artificially propped up” when Samsung, Google, and Alcatel bundled cheap VR mounting accessories with smartphones, and th…Read More Source: IDC expects rebound after VR...
Secret Location is unveiling Transpose, a dream-like, gravity defying virtual reality game where you manipulate time back and forth to solve puzzles. The game is set in a surreal world with computer graphics inspired art style. I tried out the game in a preview recently, and it was interesting to see VR progress from the...
SPONSORED: Presented by Extreme Networks This year, the global esports economy — the industry in which professional game players compete for real money and glory — will reach $905.6 million, and over 380 million fans are watching. In two years, we’ll see esports blow up to a $1.4 billion industry — which Newzoo says is just…Read...
Google Chrome was first released (as a beta) on September 2, 2008, meaning the browser turned 10 years old on Saturday. But with the timing of the long Labor Day weekend in the U.S. this year, Google waited a few days before talking about what’s new for Chrome and its over 1 billion users: artificial...
The Microsoft Paper Clip is talking to me. Or at least a more colorful version of him is. He’s ordering me to paint pizza around the room and I have no choice but to comply, so I do. Glorious, stodgy slices of pizza dripping with cheese and lined around the walls, folding towards the end...
Virtual reality has a long way to go before it feels like reality. The visual part is getting more immersive with the new VR headsets, but things like the sense of touch are missing. Heather Culbertson hopes to change that. At the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, Culbertson and her team of...
Can you believe it’s nearly September already? It seems like it was only yesterday that we were looking ahead to 2018 and imagining all the great VR gaming we were going to be doing. Now most of it’s behind us. Fortunately, though, 2018 has saved the best for last. We’ve rounded up 13 games! Firewall:...
Google’s Spotlight Story series of gorgeously animated 360-degree videos has produced some of the best-looking experiences you can have inside a VR headset. Its latest entry, Age of Sail, is no exception. The trailer for this latest story, which is on display at the Venice Film Festival this week, just dropped. Directed by John Kahrs, who’s best...
GUEST: Since Apple’s release of ARKit, it’s become easier than ever to make AR experiences. However, an initial stumbling block for the nascent mobile AR ecosystem was the fact that AR experiences were solitary. That is, it wasn’t possible to make seamless real-time multiplayer AR experiences, and content didn’t persist in the spaces where these...
Aiming to capture and hold the attention of young students, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has launched a smartphone app that allows visitors to view a museum exhibit in augmented reality. The Washington, D.C.-based museum’s app lets visitors learn more about the lives of Lithuanian villagers who are featured in the Tower of Faces display…Read...
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