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 […]
LG Electronics has opened the new LG G5, inviting developers to learn about the modular design smartphone and companion devices as an invitation to develop within the LG5 ecosystem. At LG’s fourth annual LG Developer Event, hosted on Friday, April 15 in San Francisco, attendees learned some data points about new software development kit and […]
Virtual reality, augmented reality and internet of things definitely commands the headlines these days. But, “neurogaming” has also had its share of hype over the years. Involving other highly hyped concepts such as wearables, VR, AR and IoT, neurogaming is not benefited or beset by a flood of conferences and events. So, the Experiential Technology […]
The consumer launches of Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR have occurred, so the next set of questions involve what kind of content will emerge on these virtual reality headsets. Furthermore, what might the next generation of hardware bring? Predictions on market potential widely vary, but it’s clear there is a lot of […]
NVIDIA has come a long way from the days of being the “gaming graphics card company,” after it unseated then acquired rival 3dfx, around the turn of the millennium. Nowhere is this clearer than NVIDIA’S own ecosystem conference, GPU Technology Conference (GTC 2016), which focuses on a diverse array of topics, like internet of things, […]
Oculus, one of the early industry leaders in virtual reality, also appears to want to take an early lead in creating a broad spectrum of pioneers in VR development. The Facebook-owned VR company quietly rolled out a program based on the premise that “VR is for everyone, and the best way to foster a widely […]
