Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Held in San Jose, CA between October 5th and 7th, Oculus Connect returns once again and, as before, promises to become a Mecca for virtual reality developers around the world. Learn about breakthroughs for FPS in VR, how to design games with hand presence for Touch, and best practices for cross-platform compatibility.

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2019

Today during the opening keynote of WWDC in San Jose, Apple revealed ARKit 3. From Apple’s description, RealityKit almost sounds like a miniature game engine, including “photo-realistic rendering, camera effects, animations, physics and more.” Reality Composer. Image courtesy Apple.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 25, 2019

The Game Developers Conference was held last week in San Francisco and we wanted to get together to discuss what we saw at the show for Extra Crunch members. VR, gaming engines, Unity, Unreal and Epic were just some of the topics we touched upon.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

It will be held at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on September, 25–26th. nReal has also been sued by Epic Games for its name that is too close to “Unreal”. For this reason, the Index icon now appears on the side of compatible games on SteamVR. Other relevant news. Image by Upload VR).

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Truth is that the tiny GPUs in mobile phones simply aren’t good enough for many workloads especially if you are trying to “immerse” your user in, say, a bleeding edge video game. When you go to a football game you are “immersed” in a way that you can’t get by watching the same game on TV.

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