Earlier this week, Amazon announced that it has opened virtual reality kiosks in 10 shopping malls to promote its upcoming Prime Day shopping event. Now you can see the Amazon VR experience for yourself. Prepare to be impressed: It’s significantly more elaborate than expected, and shows how a top retailer is transforming the future of shoppin…Read More...
The universe has a few constants. You’re going to die, you have to pay taxes, and if you sell something on someone else’s platform, you have to give them a 30 percent cut. Well, publisher Epic Games is disrupting that last fundamental truth with its Unreal Engine Marketplace, as it’s planning to only take a...
EXCLUSIVE: The augmented reality ecosystem continued to grow in the first half of 2018, with the number of AR companies growing 50 percent to 290 since the end of 2017, according to investor The Venture Reality Fund. Propped up by Magic Leap’s impressive and almost crazy ability to raise money, the AR market has continued to...
Way back in 1991, director James Cameron gave us “Terminator Vision,” the augmented reality view that showed us how a cyborg (played by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger) saw the world. That vision proved to be very inspiring, and many years later, some artists have gotten together to re-create the view from Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Marti…Read...
Magic Leap, the secretive startup responsible for the Magic Leap One augmented reality platform, has selected AT&T as its exclusive wireless distributor for U.S. consumers ahead of the device’s initial release this year. AT&T also announced today that it is investing an undisclosed amount in Magic Leap, with AT&T CEO John Donovan…Read More Source: Magic Leap signs...
Penrose Studios has raised $10 million in a new round of funding for its augmented reality and virtual reality entertainment. That’s a beefy round, considering that part of the company’s market, VR, has fallen out of favor with investors. But San Francisco-based Penrose Studios has set itself apart with animated VR films such as Allumet…Read...
There’s something incredibly futuristic about walking into a store, grabbing items off the shelf, tapping a confirmation screen, and going along your merry way — no credit card, cash, or small talk with a cashier required. Amazon Go, internet retailer Amazon’s prototypical checkout-free retail experience, offers a taste of a futur…Read More Source: Trigo offers...
We’re back after taking a week off for Independence Day, and everyone is talking about ArenaNet. Well, the GamesBeat Decides podcast is not going to miss out on a situation like this. That studio’s decision to fire two of its Guild Wars II writers for being mildly abrasive on Twitter takes up a good portion of...
Last year, German automaker Daimler and electronics company Bosch announced they would join forces to develop a fully automated, driverless car system. In a show of progress today, the two announced that they’ve chosen Nvidia’s Drive Pegasus as their artificial intelligence (AI) computing platform of choice, and that they’ll begin…Read More Source: Bosch and Daimler...
In early 1995, I remember reading a letter in a video game magazine that talked about how much momentum Nintendo had with the upcoming Ultra 64 console and the futuristic Virtual Boy. When it launched, the Nintendo 64 (its final name) did fine — although it didn’t beat the new PlayStation system from Sony. The...
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