ANALYSIS: Announced at WWDC this week but lost in the shuffle of several dozen bigger pieces of news, Apple’s new Measure app for iOS 12 is a curiosity — an extremely rare addition to iOS’ built-in collection of apps, and the first with augmented reality (AR) functionality. If you’re using an iOS device that supports...
If anyone succeeds in turning virtual reality gaming into an esport, it will probably be Ready At Dawn Studios. The Irvine, California-based studio created Lone Echo and Echo Arena for the Oculus Rift in 2017, and it’s back this year with a new title called Echo Combat. Lone Echo was a single-player VR experience driven...
Oculus vice president of content Jason Rubin said that the virtual reality platform was looking for “bigger, deeper” projects in 2018 — and that’s just what Stormland is. It’s the latest from Insomniac Games and Oculus Studios, an ambitious open-world adventure starring a robot who must save its planet from invaders ca…Read More Source: Insomniac’s mystery...
PREVIEW: Ready At Dawn Studios morphed the gameplay in two virtual reality games from last year, Lone Echo and the multiplayer Echo Arena, and turned them into a new multiplayer VR release, Echo Combat. This looks like a great decision, based on a preview demo that I played recently. The game makes you hot and sweaty as...
Nearly two months after introducing Snappables, its social AR offering, Snap is now working with companies to create and sell branded versions of Snappables games. The new offering is part of a larger effort to make it easier for advertisers to purchase AR ads. The first sponsored Snappables will go live on Thursday, according to...
Microsoft’s 2018 E3 media event was undeniably impressive — a demo reel packed with announcements of compelling games, upcoming service improvements, and even hardware teases. But despite Microsoft’s 2016 promise of VR support for the Xbox One X, the event had zero VR announcements: no hardware, no software, and not even a hint at…Read More...
The annual Midemlab startup competition in Cannes attracted another strong lineup of music-related companies that are targeting an industry undergoing massive disruption. The competition received 234 submissions from 42 countries. I served on a jury for startups pitching in “Experiential Technology,” one of four categories in the compet…Read More Source: 5 Midemlab music tech startups...
(Reuters) — Mapping startup Mapbox Inc. said Monday that it had hired Avi Cieplinski, a veteran of Twitter and Apple who co-invented several popular iPhone features, to head up its efforts to help application makers design location-based augmented reality software. Mapbox does not make a mapping app itself but provides the underlying maps ins…Read More...
Bethesda announced a new The Elder Scrolls games today at its Electronic Entertainment Expo showcase. It’s Elder Scrolls: Blades, and it’s coming to mobile this fall for free to iOS and Android. It’s a first-person role-playing game with console-quality graphics. You can tap to move or use dual-stick controls. Combat is new and fo…Read More...
Having rebranded itself as Beat Games following the instant success of its Steam and Oculus light sword rhythm game Beat Saber, developer Hyperbolic Magnetism has some great news for PlayStation fans today: Beat Saber is coming to PSVR “later this year.” The game combines the visual style of Tron: Legacy with Star Wars lightsabers, chal…Read...
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