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Nintendo Partners With Niantic for Multiple New AR Games, Starting This Year with ‘Pikmin’

Nintendo and Niantic have announced a partnership to jointly develop new AR games based on Nintendo franchises. The first game will be based on the Pikmin series, and be “built on Niantic’s real-world AR technology,” which has most famously been used for Pokémon Go. Niantic is the studio behind the well known Pokémon Go, a mobile game that leverages […]

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23. März 2021

You Can Now Photoshop the World in Real-time With AR on an iPhone

WarpAR is a free iOS app from developer Matt Bierner which lets you use Photoshop-like liquify tools to dynamically modify the world through AR. More than just a cool tech demo, it also helps us imagine what the future might be like when our physical reality becomes increasingly subject to digital whims. WarpAR brings Photoshop-like […]

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Gamescom 2021 is Moving Forward with Plans for Hybrid Event

Image courtesy Verband der deutschen Games-Branche

Like a majority of in-person events, Gamescom was cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, or rather held entirely online—however you want to slice it. Now event organizers say it will be held as a “hybrid event” this August, offering up its massive halls to press, industry and even private visitors. Unlike last year’s […]

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22. März 2021

‘Carly and the Reaperman’ Launches with Quest-to-Quest & Quest-to-PC Asymmetric Co-op

Asymmetric co-op VR games—where each user plays a wholly different gameplay role—are a rare breed. Fortunately, the well regarded Carly and the Reaperman has launched on Quest and brings with it more ways to play with friends. Update (April 16th, 2021): Carly and the Reaperman has launched on Quest, priced at $20. This is the first version of the […]

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19. März 2021

PlayStation is Giving Away 5 Top PSVR Titles, Including ‘Astro Bot’, ‘Moss’ & More

As a part of PlayStation’s Play at Home program, the company is giving away a selection of nine free games, five of which are some of the best VR games on the platform. Update (March 25th, 2021): Ready, set, download! You can now download five of the best games on PSVR starting today, March 25th, […]

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Sony is an Official Supporter of OpenXR But Hasn’t Committed to a PSVR Implementation

PSVR & PS Move controllers | Image courtesy PlayStation

Despite being among the early supporters of the OpenXR consortium—the industry group building the open standard for XR devices—Sony so far seems to have avoided making a specific commitment to implement OpenXR on PSVR or its next-gen headset. OpenXR is an open standard developed under the Khronos Group. It’s goal is to make XR applications […]

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Newly Published Valve Patent Envisions Wireless & Standalone Versions of Index, New Head-mounts

A newly published patent granted to Valve envisions new Index headsets that could be wireless or standalone, and include new head-mounts for improved ergonomics. Initially filed back in September, 2020, more than a year after the launch of Valve’s Index headset, a patent published today gives us a glimpse of some of Valve’s thinking about […]

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Pimax “8K” X Update Enables 90Hz Refresh Rate With Max Resolution on GeForce 30-series GPUs

Pimax’s top of the line offering, the “8K” X headset, originally shipped with a max refresh rate of 75Hz for its native resolution mode. Today the company is releasing a beta update which pushes that up to 90Hz. The company says it worked with NVIDIA to overcome prior “bandwidth limitations” to enable the higher refresh […]

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Facebook Reveals Latest Wrist-worn Prototypes for XR Input & Haptics

Facebook today revealed some of its latest research and vision for a wrist-worn input device that the company expects to form the basis of AR and VR interactions and haptics in the future. The device, still in a research prototype phase, senses electrical signals in the user’s arm to detect intentional inputs. In addition to […]

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