After giving his personal Magic Leap One development kit to iFixit for a physical teardown last week, controversial Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has posted a blunt and detailed conceptual teardown of the Creator Edition on his personal blog. Calling the augmented reality headset a “tragedy in the classical sense,” Luckey bemoans not onl…Read More Source: Oculus...
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Nostos is an open-world VR RPG that sure looks like Sword Art Online
I’m a simple man. I love beautiful, cel-shaded worlds; role-playing games; and fighting monsters online with friends. Similar in many ways to Sword Art Online, Nostos is all of those and more, in virtual reality, and I’m absolutely foaming at the mouth to see more of this game. I would really love a true, in-universe VR...
9 Oculus Rift apps that must get Santa Cruz ports
Earlier this week, UploadVR broke the news that Oculus is tentatively targeting a first-quarter 2019 release for its Santa Cruz standalone VR headset. The news doesn’t come as too much of a surprise given Oculus’ Rift and Go devices both got early releases in their respective launch years. What did raise eyebrows, though, is the news that...
Vreal brings better recording options to the likes of Tilt Brush
Vreal is opening up access so any creator can download the app and start recording visits to worlds like Tilt Brush. Vreal’s recorder maps player movements to an animal avatar while also capturing the entire changing virtual environment. With something like Tilt Brush, that means for the first time folks can actually record an entire...
Twilight Path hands-on: Charm is becoming a go-to VR studio for puzzle games
PREVIEW: Twilight Path from Charm Games has a strong sense of identity from its opening moments. The very second that it begins you immediately feel like you’re inside of a fully-realized virtual world, even if all you’re really doing is teleporting around while solving puzzles. This is the follow-up to 2017’s Form, an exquisite, but extremely shor…Read...
Magic Leap will hold a dev conference in October — should you care?
OPINION: Magic Leap apparently doesn’t think it’s too early to hold its first developer’s conference, complete with “a live-streamed keynote, more partnership announcements and plenty of demos on stage.” The company shared the news today with Engadget, which says that the conference is scheduled for October 9-10 in Los…Read More Source: Magic Leap will hold a dev conference in...
The 3 blunders of Nvidia’s RTX 2080 video card event
Nvidia kicked off this excruciatingly long week on Monday morning with an event in Germany to debut its upcoming GeForce RTX 20-series graphics cards. The RTX 2070, 2080, and 2080 Ti start rolling out in September, and I can’t stop thinking about the presentation and the less-than-positive reaction to it from some enthusiasts. I’m excit…Read...
The DeanBeat: Yep, I’m still playing Pokémon Go
I’m one of those people who is still playing Pokémon Go, the location-based mobile game that set the world on fire in July 2016. If you ask me why, I’ll have to say that I really don’t know why. It’s not because it has addictive gameplay. Sometimes we play games for a long time, and it isn’t...
GamesBeat Decides 93: Ray tracing is the future!
The GamesBeat Decides podcast is back, and it’s going to get it right this time. On this episode, GamesBeat PC gaming editor Jeffrey Grubb and review editor Mike Minotti talk about video games and private detective Ray Tracing. The crew also dives into the NPD numbers for July. Nintendo did really well, and so did...
You can get an RTX 2080 Ti graphics card for $999, but you’ll have to wait
Nvidia revealed its next-gen RTX video cards in an event on Monday, and it has spent the rest of the week taking preorders for the cards that launch September 20. But enthusiasts that jumped at the chance to get in on the new chips from Nvidia found an unpleasant surprise when they saw the price...
