Check Out This Rare Footage Of Steven Spielberg’s Cancelled Alien Game, LMNO

In the mid-2000s EA and Spielberg announced a three-game collaboration. The Jenga-style puzzle game Boom Blocks was the first and only game that actually came out of this collaboration, but a couple other studies also worked with the director on unreleased projects. https://youtube.com/watch?v=h4kdqwdbZZ8%3Fstart%3D1485 In a recently Noclip docuseries on Arkane, the team talked about their […]

Facebook’s AI convincingly inserts people into photos

In a paper published last week on the preprint server Arxiv.org, scientists affiliated with Facebook AI Research and Tel Aviv University propose a novel technique for inserting people into existing images in a photorealistic, high-resolution way. It taps AI that creates a semantic map of a person and estimates the pose of other people in […]

Panasonic Targets 2021 For Its Slim VR Glasses

Qualcomm today revealed its expectations for wired and eventually wireless VR and AR viewers in the coming decade. As part of the update Panasonic also released a statement indicating the company is targeting 2021 for its lightweight VR glasses. I tried out the VR glasses at CES in January and left the demo fairly impressed. […]

PS Plus and PS Now only £30 in new PlayStation Days of Play deals

Sony’s Days Of Play sale has just started in the UK, with major discounts on PlayStation VR and games including Nioh 2 and Death Stranding. This year’s Days of Play event has just started and there’s already a major bargain to be had, if you want to invest in 12 months’ worth of PlayStation Plus […]

Niantic’s latest AR features add realism to Pokémon Go

Niantic is adding augmented reality features to Pokémon Go that should make the blending of animation and the real world seem more realistic. While Pokémon Go seems like a simple mobile game, it’s so popular and generates so much revenue that the company can invest heavily in AR technology. These updates will create more realistic […]

Influx of Qualcomm XR2 Powered 5G XR Viewers are Coming

Technology isn’t quite there yet when it comes to a stylish pair of sunglasses which have virtual or augmented reality (VR/AR) tech built-in, but steps towards that end goal are being made. Today, Qualcomm has unveiled a selection of ‘XR Viewers’ which use its XR2 5G platform slated to arrive in the next 12 months. […]