Virtual Reality
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Stockholm-based Resolution Games nabs $7.5M to pioneer AR/VR experiences
New platforms are all about the content, and Resolution Games is one of the rare game studios going all in…
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Lyft speeds ahead with its autonomous initiatives
Lyft, the transportation on demand company that is heading to a $15 billion IPO in 2019, is racing ahead with its…
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Gearing up to step into virtual reality
For the past two years, we’ve been closely following the advances of new VR experiences. Much of this gear is…
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Virtual reality makes food taste better
In another example of VR bleeding into real life, Cornell University food scientists found that cheese eaten in pleasant VR…
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Intel opens Tech Learning Lab roaming VR truck in the Bronx
Intel is launching the Tech Learning Lab, a custom-built mobile container truck outfitted with virtual reality demo stations, powerful PCs,…
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Sixense will refund its VR controller backers, switch to enterprise
Sixense pioneered hand controllers for virtual reality applications in 2013, but the company hasn’t been able to produce its Stem…
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Gartner picks digital ethics and privacy as a strategic trend for 2019
Analyst Gartner, best known for crunching device marketshare data; charting technology hype cycles; and churning out predictive listicles of emergent capabilities…
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Disney‘s John Snoddy will talk imagineering augmented worlds at TC Sessions: AR/VR in LA this week
At our one-day TC Sessions: AR/VR event in LA on October 18, we’ll be joined by Walt Disney Imagineering’s R&D Studio Executive Jon Snoddy.…
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Disney-backed Jaunt lays off ‘significant’ number of employees as it moves away from VR
One of the top-funded VR content startups, with backers including Disney and GV (Google Ventures), is laying off a “significant…
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Improbable brings its massive multiplayer platform to Unity game engine
As battle royale games like Fortnite pit more players against each other, studios are starting to realize the potential of…
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