San Francisco – January 24, 2020 – The Game Developers Conference (GDC) has released the results of the eighth annual State of the Industry Survey, revealing trends in the game industry ahead of GDC 2020 in March. With responses from nearly 4,000 participating game developers, the survey reflects current sentiment among game makers on a […]
San Francisco, October 16, 2019 — Over two hundred organizations were considered for the inaugural class of Innovation Award Winners. In the end, the judges made the difficult selection of the four winners on the first Innovation Awards. These organizations represent the top of the class in four categories: Tools, Hardware, Enterprise Application, and Entertainment/Marketing […]
While the news from the first day’s keynote at the Oculus Connect events — with the announcements, teasers, and features — makes most of the headlines, one of the attendee favorite talks at Facebook’s virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) developer ecosystem conference is Oculus CTO John Carmack’s second day keynote. In this keynote […]
San Francisco, September 23, 2019 — Greenlight Insights has announced the 18 finalists of the 2019 Innovation Awards to be presented at the upcoming xRS Week 2019 Conference & Expo next month. These awards identify top virtual and augmented reality (“xR”) technology companies and end-user organizations that have implemented innovations using xR technology capabilities, products […]
San Francisco, CA – September 16, 2019 – The fourth annual xRS Week, produced by Greenlight Insights, will take place October 16-18 at the beautiful Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco. Featuring presentations from leading business executives, top industry analysts, and global thought-leaders, xRS Week is set to be the premier gathering showcasing the future of […]
Oculus Connect, Facebook’s annual developer-focused conference built around their Oculus virtual reality (VR) ecosystem, is heading for its year six event. Oculus Connect 6 (OC6), is date-and-place official: the event will be held September 25th and 26th, returning to the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. Earlier this year, at Facebook’s other major developer event, F8, […]
For this month’s featured video, we selected the following from Oculus Connect that took place earlier last month. Oculus Connect highlights the latest developments in VR technologies led by Oculus (owned by Facebook). During the keynote, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, gave a presentation not just on Oculus technologies but the content and overall ecosystem advances […]
Along with the announcement of the Oculus Quest virtual reality (VR) headset for spring 2019 came the announcement of about 50 titles to launch with it. A few of the upcoming game titles were shown at Oculus Connect 5 and held a dominant presence on the expo floor. We had the opportunity to test drive a few of these […]
Virtual reality (VR) and eSports are starting to meet at an intersection, which will allow tournaments and other events to portray new content in new ways. Imagine tournaments where VR-empowered competitive gamers play tournaments in more immersive environments, while their audiences watch the action on the big screens — or perhaps in VR themselves? It’s been […]
I present to you the humble GIF. Often fought over in terms of pronunciation (“giff” vs “jiff”), frequently used in grainy meme animation loops, and often disregarded as the lower-quality sibling to JPEG, PNG and other image formats. A better question might be, “How do you improve the GIF?” But to start with, what are […]
Intel’s Developer Forum conference in San Francisco has been a showcase of a broad range of technologies, many of which intersect with, or directly affect, gamers and the industries that support them. We take a quick and dirty preview, at some of what expect from the upcoming IDF show. Bringing the Buzz Workshop Back to […]
During the Flash Memory Summit 2016, a conference unlikely to be familiar to most gamers, still has an impact on the virtual reality, augmented reality and wearables that are becoming part of many gamers’ lives. Namely, a panel conversation will be taking place this week that covers the role of flash memory in storage and […]