What Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality developers are talking about
By teaming up with the new hot app Pokémon Go, McDonald's Japan has managed to secure its first profit in two years, thanks to an increase in sales immediately following the launch of the game in the country.
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The European version of the No Man's Sky limited edition box set features a sticker strategically placed to hide the game's "online play" icon, fueling rumors that Hello Games may have scaled back the game's online features.
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If you need to keep up with your Xbox One games while you're on the move, the portable "Xbook One S" created by Eddie Zarick is definitely the way to go — as long as you've got $1,495 to spare.
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The venerable iFixit has done it again: taken a brand new, perfectly good VR headset and ripped it apart for our pleasure.
OSVR’s recently launched HDK 2 headset is starting to land in the hands of eager users. iFixit has promptly opened theirs up and given it a detailed teardown to find out exactly what’s inside.
Reading through the teardown, it’s clear iFixit admired the ease of disassembly, and scored the headset 9 out of 10 in repairability—good news for a headset that is called the ‘Hacker Development Kit’. In fact, the author of the teardown points out a few bits in Step 7 that might prove useful for modders/makers/hackers:
The HDK2’s major improvement over the first HDK is its display which, at 2160×1200 and 90Hz, matches the resolution and refresh rate of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Priced at $400 vs. the Rift’s $600 and Vive’s $800, OSVR could represent good value for those looking for a cheaper and more hackable (not to mention upgradable) VR headset.
Head over to iFixit to see the full teardown with notes and analysis of individual components used on the headset’s circuit boards.
Disclosure: At the time of writing, OSVR is running advertisements on Road to VR.
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Those in the know suggest that Atlas Stones play a big role in the endgame of No Man's Sky -- and now a new exploit has been discovered that lets players farm these items with the greatest of ease.
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The Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI ) Society has decided to move the event from Istanbul, Turkey to Athens, Greece. The conference is still going to be organized in collaboration with Bogazici, Sabanci, and Istanbul Technical Universities. Exact conference dates are from October 17th to 21st, 2016. This year Sebastien Ourselin, Aytül Erçil will be the conference chair.
Again scientists, engineers, and clinicians are invited to submit their latest work in the following categories:
Robinson: The Journey is Crytek’s second VR game, coming to PSVR, following The Climb which was launched earlier this year for the Oculus Rift. A new development diary explores the game’s premise, design philosophy, and killer raptors.
Crytek has long been known for amazing visuals powered by their own CryEngine; lucky us then that the company has had their attention focused on VR from quite early on and is in development of their second VR title, Robinson: The Journey.
Due out for PlayStation VR later this year, the game puts players in the boots of a child stranded on an unknown planet that’s anything but devoid of life. Players will encounter incredibly lush terrain and all manner of dinosaurs.
While in demos of the game we’ve seen mostly friendly (if gigantic) creatures, the company’s first development diary of the game (above) suggests we’ll come face to face with raptors who would love nothing more than a quick snack.
If that turns out to be half as frightening as the raptor encounters in Jurassic Park (1993), sign me up.
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Humble Bundle has announced a new partners program that will allow certain YouTube and Twitch streamers to promote bundles with a chance of receiving a cut of the revenue.
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