Virtual reality headsets have faced gloomy forecasts since shortly after they hit the market, so one of the industry’s leaders decided today to directly address the naysayers. A blog post from HTC’s Vive team says that “news of the so-called death of VR comes once a year and is greatly exaggerated,” then rebuts the claims wi…Read More Source:...
Scandit, a Swiss barcode scanning platform for mobile enterprise apps, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding led by Alphabet’s venture capital (VC) arm GV. NGP Capital, formerly known as Nokia Growth Partners, also participated in the round alongside Atomico and others. Founded in 2009 by a group of Ph.D. graduates...
Microsoft today released two new Windows 10 previews for PCs. The first build is from the RS5 branch, which represents the Windows 10 update the company plans to release later this year, and the second is from the 19H1 branch, which, as its name indicates, will arrive in the first half of next year. It’s...
This year’s Play NYC game festival will be at the Manhattan Center, a little over 10 miles from Ellis Island, where over 12 million immigrants arrived in the U.S. over the course of 62 years. Today, New York City is one of the most diverse cities in the world, and Play NYC is celebrating that...
Google’s YouTube VR application is coming to the Samsung Gear VR this week, the company announced today, potentially expanding the virtual reality video service’s audience by “millions of people.” YouTube VR is pitched as a “3D world” filled with YouTube’s existing content and channels, including access to…Read More Source: YouTube VR app launches on Samsung Gear...
Developer Ninja Theory announced today that its cerebral action game Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is getting a new VR version. It will release for Steam on July 31 and work on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice came out last year for PlayStation 4 and PC, with an Xbox One version following this April. The...
EXCLUSIVE: Vertigo Games, the studio behind best-selling virtual reality game Arizona Sunshine, has announced it has created a separate company entitled Vertigo Arcades that will make it easier for VR developers to create arcade versions of their games. Built on the Rotterdam, The Netherlands company’s experience in taking the shooter game Ar…Read More Source: Arizona Sunshine...
Entertainment One’s Secret Location said it will adapt Philip K. Dick’s short story “The Great C” into a cinematic virtual reality (VR) narrative. The VR animated film will premiere today at the Venice Film Festival and debut in the fourth quarter of 2018. It features a poignant storyline, a beautifully animated environment, and a…Read More...
PC gaming editor Jeffrey Grubb is on vacation, but he came back for the podcast because what if everyone realizes they don’t need him. This is why his hair is going white. Capitalism is going to kill him. On this week’s episode, fellow host and GamesBeat reviews editor Mike Minotti talks about Mega Man X. Jeff...
GUEST: The following is an excerpt from Defying Reality: The Inside Story of the Virtual Reality Revolution by David M. Ewalt. After the bright lights of Vegas and overstimulation of the Consumer Electronics Show, I was looking forward to a change of pace. So at the end of January 2016, I flew to Salt Lake...
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