Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 13, 2019

Funomena’s latest game lets you plant holographic gardens in your own mixed reality playspace. That’s why it’s so exciting to see people like veteran VR Storyteller Robin Hunicke getting on board. The Independent game studio just launched its first title for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition, called Luna: Moondust Garden.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 1, 2021

All below-described loyalty programs are aimed at bringing gamification to the shopping process, and therefore their mechanics almost always are based on the toys, games, or both at once. making a profit from the sale of toys or other special items; ? the mechanical board game and the mobile app game?—?makes

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2022

Although most people still consider AR as an entertainment technology, we can see its practical implementations in various industries like e-commerce, healthcare, architecture , training, and many others. If you are interested to board the AR bandwagon, then this is the right time to build AR applications.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

At Oculus’ off-site GDC demo booth we saw Brass Tactics, Hidden Path Entertainment’s new real-time strategy game coming exclusively to Oculus Touch after their hit tower defense game Defense Grid 2 Enhanced VR Edition (2016). “Aha, it’s the opening to Game of Thrones ,” I remarked aloud.

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Mashable VR

JUNE 3, 2022

Entertaining Dads Winc Wine Delivery: $155 of Credit for 12 Bottles A great gift for the dad who has everything, this curated wine delivery deal helps you pick the perfect bottles for your dad, thanks to a personalized palate profile quiz. It’s usually $150, but you can snag the easy-to-set-up game for $129.99. Credit: Cheerble.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Tokyo Game Show 2023 embraced the world of VR this year. This is the third time that the Japanese gaming expo has used VR as a tool to offer a hybrid way to experience the event from home, allowing fans to explore a gamified look at titles featured within bespoke booths built inside fantasy landscapes.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2023

VR has become a surprisingly frequent medium for developers to reimagine cult classic adventure games, adapting the point-and-click or text-based gameplay to fit with the more tactile immersive nature of the platform. You can’t reset individual puzzles, either.

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Cats and VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Dark Slope , a Toronto-based virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) developer, is creating free-roam multi-user experiences for the rapidly expanding location-based entertainment (LBE) market and for enterprise customers. The one-year old company is announcing it has closed a seed funding round raising more than $1.5

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Road to VR

JULY 1, 2016

Starbreeze continues to make strategic VR/AR partnerships as today it has announced a $1.65M acquisition of augmented reality and “toys to life” company ePawn, who bring them some intriguing technologies with potential applications for the immersive space. Starbreeze seems to be popping up regularly in our headlines recently.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 8, 2020

And during the theatrical release of Black Panther, Walmart used AR to turn its aisles into the world of Wakanda where shoppers could explore while checking out toys from the movie. The Store as a Game. LEGO’s in-store WebAR activation for its Hidden Side playsets challenged consumers to capture virtual ghosts around the store.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The series B funding brings along with it Larry Cutler, Pixar’s technical director for Toy Story 2 (1999) and Monsters Inc. Chris Milk, founder and CEO of VR film distribution platform Within , will also be joining Baobab’s advisory board. “We Fan previously worked on Pixar’s Toy Story 3 (2010).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 14, 2017

They promise us wonderful connections between the digital and physical worlds, and games where we can chase cartoon characters through our own furniture. That’s a division of Spin Master, which is a 20-plus-year-old toy company. They’ve stopped playing with toys, because it’s such a compelling medium. We’re huge fans.

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Mashable VR

MAY 3, 2022

I'm about kicking ass, I'm about taking names, and we're about making games." But as Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo , his new book, reveals, the conscious construction of that line came to reflect the rebirth that was at hand under the former Nintendo of America president's leadership.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2016

. “The Vive was the extra push we needed [to continue development after the original],” said Digital Cybercherries’ co-managing partner & lead programmer Dec Doyle who gave me an inside look at the new game. We realized we’d need the full team on board… we discussed it and decided ‘yeah, this just needs to happen’.”

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VRScout

JANUARY 15, 2019

Blasters, bots, brain teasers & board games. At the world’s largest technology show, CES 2019, we saw blasters, bots, board games and brain teasers that get kids and families moving, playing, learning and engaging with each other using AR technology. Nerf Laser Ops Pro – Hasbro. GEIO – GJS Robots.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today Tilt Five is launching its Kickstarter campaign for its innovative augmented reality glasses for tabletop gaming. Some of my toy projects… I did a ton of these toys joysticks that you plug into a television and have a bunch of video games built in. Tilt Five glasses and controller, on the board (Image by Tilt Five).

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VRScout

OCTOBER 24, 2017

It took me a second to pinpoint the strangely familiar noise coming from the corner of the room, but then I saw the red plush toy perched on top of a lamp, and realized the Angry Bird call was coming from it—except that it wasn’t. And for that, you need the developer community to get on board.

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VRScout

MARCH 5, 2017

Oculus has officially announced their slate of games for 2017. 100 price cuts to the Rift and Touch ( bringing the total “all-in” price to $600 ), the launch of Robo Recall for free to Touch users, and an official showing of games scheduled to be released in 2017. . 1 – 4A Games. Rift Titles.

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VRScout

JULY 5, 2019

Exploring the rise of AR-based entertainment. Whether it be gaming, education, travel and navigation, or marketing, AR offers both consumers and companies a rapidly-growing medium in which to enhance nearly every facet of our lives. Getting kids and families moving is a positive play by toy and gaming companies.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. You get to play with probably the coolest toys in the VR space. And gaming technologies, so couldn't have picked a better spot. It's a big hub.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. You get to play with probably the coolest toys in the VR space. And gaming technologies, so couldn't have picked a better spot. It's a big hub.

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EnterpriseWear

AUGUST 1, 2018

Ideas on the ground and on board: The airport industry first began toying with wearable technology with the release of the original Google Glass in 2013. Early on, a number of airlines trialed smart glasses at the boarding gate and offered digital boarding passes for consumer smartwatches.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The goal of the Rogue Initiative was looking at the convergence of linear, Hollywood, traditional entertainment and interactive entertainment. And how could we — from the ground up — create new original properties that brought those forms of entertainment together? You guys are an entertainment company.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The goal of the Rogue Initiative was looking at the convergence of linear, Hollywood, traditional entertainment and interactive entertainment. And how could we — from the ground up — create new original properties that brought those forms of entertainment together? You guys are an entertainment company.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The goal of the Rogue Initiative was looking at the convergence of linear, Hollywood, traditional entertainment and interactive entertainment. And how could we -- from the ground up -- create new original properties that brought those forms of entertainment together? You guys are an entertainment company. Hrish: Sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. You get to play with probably the coolest toys in the VR space. And gaming technologies, so couldn't have picked a better spot. It's a big hub.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Imagine Snapchat gifting these out like Cardboards VR headsest at events like Coachella, the Sundance Music Festival, or football games. With enough people on-board, sharing images and videos in a circular format would become a new standard. That’s the game-changer. This is not Silicon Valley’s Google Glass.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Anne-Marie: They’re doing some great things with toys for kids, mostly in the AR realm and developing educational apps with their toys and without their toys, really working on some STEM programming as well. Alan: We really just want to play with toys. We’re going to have great gaming companies.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Anne-Marie: They’re doing some great things with toys for kids, mostly in the AR realm and developing educational apps with their toys and without their toys, really working on some STEM programming as well. Alan: We really just want to play with toys. We’re going to have great gaming companies.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 9, 2017

We also have a top list of the absolute best HTC Vive games — which is updated every few months with the latest and greatest options. Vehicle VR is a motor-powered puzzle game that aims to be rage inducing. Recommendation: Unique puzzle game at a cheap price. 69 Ways To Kill A Zombie, from Wadup Games. Price: $19.99.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The food coma is fast approaching, but you probably still have some fellow Americans to entertain on this holiest of holy feasts. Keep in mind : some of the best results we’ve had over the years tend to be with very noob-friendly games and apps. Now, let the arm flailing and requisite safety briefing begin! Who : Everyone.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Anne-Marie: They’re doing some great things with toys for kids, mostly in the AR realm and developing educational apps with their toys and without their toys, really working on some STEM programming as well. Alan: We really just want to play with toys. We’re going to have great gaming companies.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

What we are witnessing is the birth of arguably the most important computing platform to date that has the potential to change the way we live, work, learn, entertain and communicate in a way that dwarfs everything that has come before it. Entertainment. Crazy, you say?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2017

This included new standalone VR hardware, a new price for the Rift, and many software and game reveals. Unlike Oculus Go, Santa Cruz is designed as a high-end, standalone system, with full positional tracking on both headset and controllers, but will be limited by the performance of its on-board mobile PC.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

But have you tried staying indoors to cuss profusely at video games you're bad at together? Sadly, local multiplayer (otherwise known as "couch co-op," where you play in the same IRL space together, often on the same device through split screen) is something of a dying category in modern gaming. So go on, you crazy kids!

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Peter Graham

JUNE 28, 2019

I’ve been lucky enough to have access to the Valve Index for a month now although I’ve not been able to use it every day namely due to being away at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2019 earlier this month. As a brand new toy to play with the Valve Index just keeps getting better and better. Then Valve Index is for you.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

So the virtual worlds that we know are now serving us in ways of gaming, which they always have. But now expanding that, that whole gaming idea and bringing it into retail. But with that, we also saw the pandemic itself wipe out an entire category of this entire industry, so location based entertainment just disappeared.

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