Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 03:45

I got my hands on a PlayStation VR, and it is simultaneously delighting and frustrating me. I’ve already gone over how the device beats the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Now, it’s time to talk about where Sony has failed...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 23:10

GUEST: You’re in business, so you’ll know this feeling: You’re out with the family on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, having lunch. Work shouldn’t be further from your mind. But you just can’t help quietly critiq...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 23:10

During his opening Dreamforce keynote, Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff introduced a bevy of products and updates, many that have since been explored in-detail. However, there was one which he quickly skimmed over...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 22:55

The long-running comic series The Walking Dead is getting yet another game to go with its television spinoffs and a number of active games on iOS and Android. Disruptor Beam, the studio responsible for the story-driven m...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 22:38

Cloud spend management company Coupa today saw its stock debut on the Nasdaq Global Market, and the stock closed at $33.28, up 84 percent from the $18 price at which it sold 7.4 million shares to raise $133.2 million in ...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 22:10

PlayStation VR is almost here, and here’s what it playing games with it looks like. With Sony getting ready to launch the device October 13 for $500, I wanted to give you all a closer look at what it does. So you can c...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 22:00

The Intentional Play movement is aimed at inspiring developers to create games that have a bigger purpose than fun. It’s for developers who want to create learning, understanding, and a meaningful purpose behind their ...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 21:31

Oculus took the stage for the keynote presentation at its annual Connect developer conference today, and founder Palmer Luckey did not make an appearance. Instead of Luckey, Oculus trotted out chief executive Brendan Iri...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 21:26

The popular Prisma app best known for photo editing has started to roll out the ability to create 15-second videos, Prisma Labs announced today. The ability to lay Prisma’s neural network-altered styles on top of 15-se...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 20:59

Oculus has big plans on how to keep the content rolling out on its virtual reality platform. Disney is working with Oculus to make film and other material for the Rift and Gear VR head-mounted displays. At the Oculus Con...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 20:45

Arktika.1 looks like it could be one of the most ambitious games yet for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and its newly announced Oculus Touch controllers. The title is a VR shooter game from 4A Games, the game st...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 20:38

The new minimum specs for getting into virtual reality are more reasonable than ever before, and that means the overall price has dropped to get into this space. Oculus VR introduced a $499 “Oculus-ready” machine dur...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 20:35

Epic Games and Oculus VR are giving developers a reason to make Rift content with the Unreal Engine toolset. Today, Oculus VP of product Nate Mitchell announced that Facebook’s VR division will pay the part of the roya...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 20:13

The Oculus Touch controllers will ship on December 6 for $200 and include a sensor for detecting your movements in virtual reality. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe said that the company delayed the launch previously so that it ...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 20:12

Epic Games is announcing a zany robot-shooting game called Robo Recall as a free exclusive game for the Oculus Touch controllers and the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Raleigh, N.C.-based Epic Games made the announ...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 20:11

Outlook.com is down today. We first noticed the problem at 10:19 a.m. Pacific: we couldn’t log into the website, and soon our mobile devices started giving errors like “Couldn’t sign in.” Complaints about the out...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 20:01

Facebook didn’t close its wallet after spending $2 billion to acquire Oculus VR way back in 2014. The company has continued to put money into virtual reality. Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive of Facebook, a...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 19:55

Now we know why social networking firm Facebook cared so much about Oculus VR. Today, the company shared many more details about its social virtual reality strategy. Among the announcements are Avatars, Parties, and Room...
Forbes - 6 Oct 2016 19:49

Elizabeth Holmes announces plans to close labs, day after she officially drops out of the ranks of America's wealthiest.
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 19:41

Oculus has its own app store, but the company believes “the web is going to be one of the easiest ways to develop and share” VR experiences. Today Oculus announced a VR Web browser called Carmel and its vision of the...
Venture Beat - 6 Oct 2016 19:40

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today that the company’s Oculus division is working on a standalone version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, with no wires and no connection to a PC. Zuckerberg announced th...
Forbes - 6 Oct 2016 19:37

What supporters of Hillary Clinton fail to understand about many Donald Trump voters is that their argument that Trump would destroy everything is doomed to fail precisely because that's what they want: to see the system...