People Can Fly, the publisher behind Bulletstorm VR, will stop publishing VR games after this year. The Warsaw-based studio recently confirmed it’s phasing out publishing VR titles once the next game from developer Incuvo, currently known as Project Bison, releases in Q4 2025. Spotted by MauroNL, People Can Fly says its market analysis found a […]
This newsletter is coming out a bit late and with a little less commentary than usual because I’m overwhelmed by work at the end of this March. This is good in some ways, but less good in others. I hope you’ll enjoy this article: I think I have a good collection of interesting news, crazy […]
Napster. Now there’s a name you haven’t heard in a few years… or more likely decades. Now, immersive web company Infinite Reality announced it’s acquired the brand for $207 million. Having just closed a $3 billion investment in January, Infinite Reality says the Napster music streaming service will soon include a “social music platform” that will […]
(Image by Maria Korolov via Adobe Firefly.) IDC released their latest headset predictions today, and it’s a bit of a mixed bag. We saw a 10 percent bump in augmented and virtual reality headset shipments last year — but they’re predicting a 12 percent drop for 2025. Do the IDC numbers mean anything? Yes, they […]
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis’s AI journey had an unexpected start: his early mastery of chess. Years before Hassabis would receive the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating an AI program that predicted protein structures, he was a child chess champion who started playing the game at the age of four. By age 13, […]
Onward Update 2.0 is out now. Meta-owned Downpour Interactive describes the update as “the biggest update we have ever done since the game’s release in 2016”. According to Downpour, every single weapon and piece of equipment has been graphically upgraded, new weapons have been introduced, a new game mode has been added, you can now […]
Meta’s upcoming Horizon OS release is bringing a few more of Vision Pro’s most useful features to Quest, including a video chatting selfie cam for avatars and possibly the ability to share windows with other users when in its Horizon Home social space. Discovered by serial dataminer ‘Luna’, a beta version of Horizon OS v76 […]
Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you’ll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. The team at Annapolis, Md.-based New Sapience says it was developing artificial intelligence (AI) long before anyone heard […]
Half-Life: Alyx released five years ago. Considered by many to be the best VR game ever made, Alyx arrived just under nine months after Index as the first of the three “full” Valve VR games Valve had teased before the headset’s release. The problem, of course, is that the other two games never arrived, with […]
Bigscreen today announced its next-gen Beyond PC VR headset, promising a big boost in field-of-view (FOV) and clarity thanks to the inclusion of new pancake lenses. Bigscreen is also making the slim and light headset more attractive to at-home and enterprise users too thanks to its new adjustable interpupillary distance (IPD) and optional universal Lightseal […]