Augmented & Virtual Reality Confabulation
What Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality developers are talking about
Nintendo has shut down Miitomo, its debut smartphone app that launched two years ago. The company released the final winners of its "Miifoto" contest, which paid tribute to the social app.
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It's been a long wait for Chinese gamers, but 'Pokémon Go' is finally heading to the world's largest mobile market, guaranteeing a serious revenue boost for Niantic, the creator of the creature-catching game.
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Facebook is celebrating a year of Instant Games with some new features, including live-streaming and, starting next year, video chats. New games are coming, too, including special versions of Angry Birds and Sonic Jump.
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Expert gamer Rudy van Buren has just become a simulator driver for the McLaren F1 team after seeing off 30,000 rival contestants. It's a dream come true for the Dutchman, who had to quit a promising racing career nine years ago.
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It's taken a while, but Nintendo's Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp officially launched for smartphones one day early, on November 22. The life-simulation game is the company's third mobile effort after Super Mario Run and Fire Emblem Heroes.
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Amazon's released its Prime Video app for Xbox One in six major markets, making the offering a truly global one. Owners of the Xbox One X won't be left out either, and will be able to download the Prime Video app to stream in 4K.
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Embattled retailer Toys R Us is hoping a new VR game you play in-store will convert into lots of excited kids buying stuff. The mobile game will be available to play at all of its stores in the U.S. by the end of this month.
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Lightroom users who're also avid PlayStation gamers can bring their two skills together to edit photos with the console's controller. Kiwi photographer Ben Stewart shows us how it's done.
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Oh, what to do while waiting for a microwave to cook your peanut-butter-topped onion. Thankfully, bonkers British inventor and YouTube star Colin Furze has come up with a solution.
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A smuggler tried to get more than 70 spiders into the U.S. by hiding them inside a number of Nintendo game cartridges. Officials intercepted the creepy consignment as it headed from Mexico to an address in Maryland.
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