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San Diego matures as a tech hub
Venture Beat - 14 Oct 2018 23:33
GUEST: An 85-minute flight from the traffic snarls and frenzied house prices of the Bay Area of Silicon Valley can land you in one of the sunniest and fastest growing cities in the U.S., increasingly eyed as an attractiv...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 -- My best multiplayer match yet
Venture Beat - 14 Oct 2018 22:30
When I can get more kills than deaths in a Call of Duty match, it’s a glorious day. As a relatively elderly player of Call of Duty, I can honestly and proudly say that I’m a middle-of-the-pack player. Other people wi...
Blackout pushes Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 to best day one digital sales ever
Venture Beat - 14 Oct 2018 21:54
Game publisher Activision and developer Treyarch announced today that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 has set a new launch day record as the biggest day one digital release in Activision history. You can probably credit the en...
How Argodesign will help Magic Leap design the look and feel of spatial computing
Venture Beat - 14 Oct 2018 19:25
One of the interesting talks during Magic Leap’s laborious three-hour keynote presentation last week was by Jared Ficklin, creative technologist and partner at Argodesign, a product design consultancy. Ficklin’s comp...
Wingnut AR Pest Control shows augmented reality can be silly
Venture Beat - 14 Oct 2018 17:35
Wingnut AR showed off its first augmented reality app for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition. It was a pretty wacky game, as you might expect from the creative minds at Peter Jackson’s AR studio in New Zealand. Wingnut...
Corti heart attack detection AI can now deploy on the edge with Scandinavian design
Venture Beat - 14 Oct 2018 16:15
Work is underway to deploy Corti, an AI system that detects heart attacks during emergency phone calls, and it could be coming to some of the biggest cities in Europe. Following plans announced earlier this year to roll ...
The engine behind Paradox Development Studio's future games
Venture Beat - 14 Oct 2018 15:00
FEATURE: Since Europa Universalis III, Paradox Development Studio's grand strategy games have owed a debt to Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, or at least his name. The Clausewitz engine has powered every internal Pa...
Google rebrands AR Stickers as Playground
Venture Beat - 14 Oct 2018 12:34
Google announced this week that its AR Stickers feature, which can be found inside the Pixel's camera app, is being rebranded as Playground. Along with the rebrand they'll be releasing all-new characters such as heroes f...
Magic Leap CEO: 'We can be a public company' if developers support us
Venture Beat - 14 Oct 2018 04:03
Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz suggested an initial public offering might be planned for his company if it is able to continue building momentum with developers. The suggestion came during our first interview with Abovitz o...