VRWorld

APRIL 17, 2017

A modern twist on the “people watching” genre appeared with the Twitch platform back in 2011. Twitch stats for 2016 are staggering and many TV networks (read: advertisers) could wish for such faithful audience. “Pax Prime 2015 459” (CC BY 2.0) by SupportPDX. . “Pax Prime 2015 459” (CC BY 2.0)

Gaming 40

Gaming South Korea Entertainment Tools 40

VRScout

OCTOBER 22, 2016

A fast-paced, real-time “twitch” style combat model gives intense action, coupled with the backdrop of RPG gameplay in a massive online galaxy. We bring immersive experiences to life, focusing on music, culture and lifestyle. Boogeyman ($7.99 – Gear VR ). Young Thomas has just moved into a new house with a dark past.

Oculus 150

Oculus Australia Portugal Virtual Reality 150

AIXR

APRIL 21, 2023

Other commonalities include virtual currencies and a blending into pop culture. This culminated in streaming platforms such as Twitch forming multi-million dollar deals with eSports teams and star players. Twitch viewership grew by 70%+ to 4.9 eSports players already have alter egos like the avatars in the Metaverse.

Gaming 52

Gaming Industry Groups Augmented Reality 52

AIXR

APRIL 21, 2023

Other commonalities include virtual currencies and a blending into pop culture. This culminated in streaming platforms such as Twitch forming multi-million dollar deals with eSports teams and star players. Twitch viewership grew by 70%+ to 4.9 eSports players already have alter egos like the avatars in the Metaverse.

Industry 52

Industry Groups Augmented Reality Virtual World 52

Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2018

VRChat went through some exponential grown in the Fall of 2017 thanks in part to a number of YouTubers including Jameskii & Nagzz21 , and Twitch personalities like pokelawls , dyrus , greekgodx , and LIRIK who discovered the unique user-generated VRChat worlds, customized avatars, a fusion of pop culture references & memes, as well as opportunities (..)

Architecture 182

Architecture Education Trends Google 182

VRWorld

OCTOBER 11, 2016

1968 was a year widely known for hippie culture, green smoke, free love etc. Conceptually rounded and nailed, ideas like Facebook, YouTube or Twitch all have a chance to be born again in VR platform. That year saw San Francisco hosting not just the hippies and free love, but a very significant presentation was held.

AR 40

AR Magic Leap San Francisco Augmented Reality 40

VRGames

JUNE 23, 2022

You can experience the culture of calligraphy with your own hands and save and share your words, paintings, and illustrations with others. You, Calligrapher Twitch Streams. “You, Calligrapher” is an authentic VR Calligraphy simulator that allows you to imitate the masterpieces of poets and scholars. You, Calligrapher Info.

Simulation 52

Simulation HTC Oculus Gaming 52

Building the Metaverse

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The first Gulf War was described as the first to play out in real-time in the mass media; the War in Ukraine is the first war that’s playing out on the real-time internet: Twitch, TikTok and Twitter. supported through propaganda cultural practices?—?can History shows plenty of examples: the complete lack of morale in Afghanistan?—?compared

Ukraine 52

Ukraine Russia Video Afghanistan 52

AR Insider

JULY 15, 2021

But it can also chase some marginalized people off the platform, due to culturally offensive or hateful expression by others. See “HotTub Twitch” or “furries” for examples of how some people may choose to express themselves. It allows more people to be themselves, beyond everyday RL constraints.

Machine Learning 247

Machine Learning Eye Tracking Data AR 247

HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

VR immerses itself into pop culture. Our team took over the Ready Player One livestream on Twitch at the 2018 South by Southwest Conference. Lucas Matney from Techcrunch , Dean Takahashi from Venture Beat , and Ben Lang from Road to VR had great things to say about our tech. We even turned VR skeptics into evangelists.

Haptic 53

Haptic New York City Software Simulation 53

GizModo VR

JULY 14, 2021

The team behind Space Jam: A New Legacy has pulled off the impossible. They’ve taken two of the most dynamic and entertaining things on the entire planet and made them boring. One of those is LeBron James , an iconic, generational basketball champion, and the other is the Looney Tunes , a timeless, hilarious, adaptable,… Read more.

Entertainment 133

Entertainment Jordan Filming 133

GizModo VR

JUNE 15, 2022

For Facebook and its parent company Meta, “pride” and “envy” aren’t so much mortal sins as they are a modus operandi. The company’s obsession with being at the top of the social media ladder could also propagate more harmful content for users. Read more.

Software 98

Software Google Video Technology 98

GizModo VR

JUNE 11, 2021

Get a glimpse of Rachel Zegler’s mysterious new Shazam character. Todd McFarlane has moved on from pitching Spawn to pitching Spawn spinoffs. Plus, what’s to come on The Flash and Batwoman , and get a look at Disney+’s new Monsters Inc show. Spoilers get! Read more.

Entertainment 98

Entertainment 98

GizModo VR

OCTOBER 16, 2021

In a Friday update , Twitch downplayed the severity of this month’s massive security incident assuring users that “the customer impact is minimal” after a 125GB cache of its internal data was leaked online. Read more.

Data 111

Data Video Technology Gaming 111

GizModo VR

MARCH 31, 2022

Dungeons & Dragons actual play shows have been popular for years, but the phenomenon really kicked off seven years ago when the McElroy brothers started The Adventure Zone podcast using the newly released Fifth Edition (5e) of the incredibly popular role-playing game as a basis for their comedy storytelling. As the… Read more.

Gaming 98

Gaming Entertainment 98

GizModo VR

JULY 22, 2021

Dungeons & Dragons is undergoing a popularity boom unlike anything in its existence lately. More and more people are picking up the game—and even more have turned it into its own kind of show, as the “Actual Play” genre of streamed campaigns has shot to its own kind of transmedia boom. So it’s natural that the team… Read more.

Gaming 105

Gaming 105

GizModo VR

MAY 31, 2022

French officials are saying “adieu” to popular English video game vocabulary in an effort to preserve their rarified language. Read more.

France 98

France Video Gaming 98

Road to VR

JANUARY 15, 2018

While the app is free, and works equally on traditional monitors and PC VR headsets, VRChat owes much of its recent viral success thanks to coverage by YouTubers like PewDiePie , videogamedunkey , and Jameskii , not to mention a host of Twitch streamers.

Training 256

Training Tools Controllers Video 256

GizModo VR

JUNE 16, 2021

Australia’s major banks, airlines, and post office are all experiencing website outages that started Thursday afternoon local time, 12:30 a.m. ET, according to multiple reports from news outlets down under. Read more.

Australia 105

Australia Technology Entertainment 105

GizModo VR

MARCH 25, 2021

Fans of The Last Starfighter have long dreamed what a sequel to that movie would be. Today, they find out. Read more.

Filming 137

Filming Video Entertainment Gaming 137

GizModo VR

JULY 19, 2021

In response to the waves and waves of copyright claims fired at Twitch streamers for more than a year , one developer has come up with a clever workaround for gamers who want to play copyrighted jams on the Amazon-owned streaming site. Read more.

Tools 98

Tools Amazon Software Video 98

GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Fans on the official Twitch gaming stream hoping to enjoy Metallica’s virtual performance at BlizzCon , Blizzard’s annual gaming convention, on Friday heard something that was, uh, definitely not Metallica. Read more.

Gaming 105

Gaming Groups Video Entertainment 105

GizModo VR

MAY 26, 2021

Last week, Twitch addressed a minor community revolt with an urgent memo. It is titled : “Let’s Talk About Hot Tub Streams.” And the streams were unleashed. Read more.

Video 98

Video Entertainment Gaming 98

ARPost

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This year’s event streamed live on YouTube, Twitch, and the AWE.live app. In the end, MetaVRse co-founder Alan Smithson gave the award to Manifested – an immersive documentary about angels in different cultures created in A-Frame by Planet Voodoo. An XR Awards Ceremony in XR. WebXR Developer of the Year.

Immersion 403

Immersion Augmented Reality Education Software 403

GizModo VR

MARCH 24, 2021

Twitch chat goes ballistic. This is Stopsigncam , a Twitch channel that suddenly has over 125,000 followers even though it’s just a camera trained on a single… Read more. A blue car pulls up to a stop sign. Against all odds, it briefly, miraculously comes to a halt. Numerous people spam “I was here” as pogchamp emotes flood in.

Training 98

Training Software Video Gaming 98

Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

Underneath it all is something deeper than the technology: a social and cultural evolution. The experience has led me to see these metaphors in our culture and technology. The Red Queen also lives in our culture-technological complex. Ninja, the largest streamer on Twitch, has over 17 million followers.

Technology 83

Technology Software Gaming Unity 83

GizModo VR

APRIL 1, 2021

One of the hosts of the anti-conspiracy theory podcast QAnon Anonymous is no longer so anonymous. Read more.

Entertainment 145

Entertainment 145

Mashable VR

MARCH 30, 2022

Growing up in New Jersey, then North Carolina, she was a gamer girl who liked Yogscast , attended Minecon, and sat on the floor watching her older brother stream on Twitch. Paris has always been a hustler. As a child, she sold homemade creations to Chapel Hill's local comic store.

New York City 89

New York City New York Video North Carolina 89