Jan 18, 2023 | augmented reality, business, Facebook, games, virtual reality
Over half of all US kids and teenagers under the age of 16 play Roblox every month. Read that again. Over half of all US kids and teenagers under the age of 16 play Roblox every month. It’s been going on for years, completely under the radar. You’ve never...
Nov 4, 2022 | business, Facebook, games, hardware, virtual reality
I’m writing this at a contemporary teak desk in front of floor to ceiling windows overlooking a lake surrounded by forested mountains. My laptop screen is displayed on a monitor a few feet away with a 60” screen, crisp and bright. The keyboard of the Macbook Air is...
Aug 21, 2022 | augmented reality, business, Facebook, games, virtual reality
Luxuriate in the awfulness of the above picture. It’s Mark Zuckerberg’s avatar in virtual reality, taking a selfie in front of the Eiffel Tower and it’s hard to be sure, maybe Sagrada Familia in Barcelona? Meta released the picture to promote the...
Apr 10, 2022 | augmented reality, business, Facebook, games, virtual reality
Niantic is a tech company developing tools and games for the day when augmented reality will be widely adopted. Niantic’s founder and CEO John Hanke has strong opinions about the very different worlds of augmented reality and virtual reality, saying that the metaverse...
Jan 15, 2022 | augmented reality, Facebook, games, virtual reality
Augmented reality is going to be a Really Big Deal, but not for many years. Every major tech company will spend billions of dollars in 2022 on augmented reality. This is a transition year. None of the big tech companies will have a product to buy in 2022 that will...
Nov 24, 2019 | business, Facebook, games
The future of virtual reality may depend on headcrab zombies. Last week, game developer Valve Corporation made a bombshell announcement: it will release a new VR game, Half-Life: Alyx, in March 2020. The gaming and virtual reality communities are going nuts –...
