We’ve only had 5 days between recordings of the GamesBeat Decides podcast, so we weren’t expecting to have a lot to talk about on this week’s episode. That was our first mistake. The GamesBeat Decides crew has spent most of the last week playing Dead Cells, and that’s what they spend the top half of...
Tag: #VR #AR
Magic Leap CEO interview: For $2,295, start living 10 years ahead of everyone else
Magic Leap is taking orders for its first product, the $2,295 Magic Leap One Creator Edition augmented reality glasses. It superimposes computer-animated imagery on the world to augment what you can see with your own eyes. CEO Rony Abovitz has been waiting for this day for a long time — since he started Magic Leap...
Magic Leap One testers knock fit and field of view, say ‘ML2’ is coming
The initial verdicts are in regarding Magic Leap’s $2,295 augmented reality platform Magic Leap One: Expect a step rather than a leap forward from Microsoft’s HoloLens, thanks largely to fidgety first-generation hardware. While developers in six U.S. cities can order Magic Leap One today, testers are hinting that regular consumers may w…Read More Source: Magic Leap One...
Facebook launches AR games for Messenger group video chat
Facebook today announced the introduction of augmented reality games in group video chat with up to six people at once. AR games are available today and begin with two games: Don’t Smile, a competition to see who can keep a serious look on their face for the longest, and Asteroids Attack, a game where you pilot a...
Magic Leap launches One Creator Edition headset for $2,295
Less than a month after promising to launch its long-awaited Magic Leap One augmented reality platform this summer, Magic Leap announced today that the Creator Edition is officially available today for developers to order. The price is $2,295, with “limited quantities” currently available in six U.S. cities: Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami,…Read More Source: Magic Leap launches...
How CableLabs envisions learning with video walls, light field Holodecks, and AR/VR
As CEO of CableLabs, Phil McKinney’s job is to dream big. He gets paid by cable TV providers around the world to do research on the future and how to build the networks that the future will require, particularly to serve the needs of education. Today, CableLabs is releasing a short film called “The Near...
Virtual reality lands at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport
Virtual reality arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City earlier this summer when PeriscapeVR set up 12 stations in Terminal 4. It’s the location-based company’s first installation, and it targeted the international terminal specifically to capture the attention of passengers who are whiling away the time betwee…Read More Source: Virtual reality lands at...
Virtual Battlegrounds hopes to be the VR battle royale game
When a game vanishes off the face of the Earth for over six months after an initial reveal, it’s usually a bad sign. But in the case of Virtual Battlegrounds, an upcoming VR battle royale game from developer Cyberdream, they were just working hard on their game for eight months. A lot has happened in...
Facebook made a camera system that can make better virtual mirrors
SIGGRAPH is just around the corner so that means research groups like Facebook Reality Lab are starting to reveal some of their cutting edge work. The latest from FRL (formerly Oculus Research) demonstrates a method to capture the appearance of mirrors from the real world. The new research opens up the door to capturing the look of...
Furious Seas brings exciting pirate ship battles to VR
If you can think of something you’d want to do in a video game or fantasy life, then chances are there’s a VR app out there for you. Furious Seas, a new Early Access game from Future Immersive, was custom made for swashbuckling pirate fans: a pirate ship combat simulator that’s light on realism and...
