GUEST: For years, the theme park industry has added value to their attractions with mobile games and apps that continue the experience beyond the park’s walls and encourage return visitors. Examples include Club Penguin Island and Disney Magic Kingdom, to the Monstars Solitaire app. However, emerging technologies such as AR and VR enable park desig…Read...
EXCLUSIVE: Frostbite is an all-important game engine technology for Electronic Arts, and soon, the publisher is getting a new executive to run it, GamesBeat has learned. Tim Leland, former vice president of product management at Qualcomm, will become a new vice president at EA, working under chief technology officer Ken Moss, according to a source…Read More Source: EA...
As Snap competes for new users and partners, the company is winning big fans among music industry insiders who embrace the social media service’s potential to help artists connect with fans. Speaking this year at the annual Midem Music Conference in Cannes, Snap vice president Ben Schwerin discussed the company’s emerging music strategy…Read More Source: Snap...
Oculus, Felix & Paul Studios, and Universal Pictures are launching the second chapter of Jurassic World: Blue, a two-part virtual reality experience produced to coincide with the recent release of the Oculus Go VR headset and the upcoming theatrical release of the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom film. The new experience is one of a number...
The Oculus Go virtual reality headset is now available at a starting price of $200, and Facebook showed off its flagship VR social apps at its F8 developer conference today. It’s supports 1,000 existing apps, but Oculus is hoping to coax users to try out its latest hardware with the launches of 21 games and aps....
GUEST: Last month I covered Virtualitics’ $7 million Series B and how VR and AR data visualization stands to fix some of our most pervasive big data challenges. The tech enables not only enterprises and organizations, but anyone, to use their spatial intelligence to spot patterns and make connections that breakthrough the tangled clutter of...
Apple released record second-quarter 2018 financial results today and once again hosted a live question-and-answer session for financial analysts to speak with Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri. We’re covering the session live, with updates below in chronological order as the call proceeds. Cook began by noting the success of the quarte…Read More Source:...
Annual conferences hosted by tech giants can generate lots of headlines — some predictable, some surprising. At F8 2017, the company shared experiments for hearing with your skin and writing with your brain. This year, in another wow moment, Facebook shared plans to use artificial intelligence to stitch together VR environments reconstructed…Read More Source: Facebook...
Oculus’s latest virtual reality headset, the Oculus Go, is now available for purchase and will launch with over 1,000 apps on its platform. At Facebook’s F8 developer conference today, the VR group showed off how users will be able to watch TV together and play Hasbro board games. Facebook vice president of VR Hugo Barra took...
Facebook is working with apps on building integrations that will allow users to share their content directly to Stories on Facebook and Instagram. Facebook chief product officer Chris Cox made the announcement today during Facebook’s annual F8 conference for developers. The app integration with Stories is currently in beta. The first two comp…Read More Source: Facebook and Instagram...
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