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venturebeat | February 04, 2020

The PlayStation 5 is coming. Sony Interactive Entertainment is launching the next-generation console this holiday. And one of the ways you can tell it’s imminent is that the company’s current games business is going through a cyclical decline. As part of its third-quarter earnings report, Sony announced that PlayStation sales dropped 20% compared to the same period in the previous fiscal year. Sony’s Game & Network Services Segment generated 632.1 billion yen ($5.8 billion)...

vrfocus | April 14, 2020

At the beginning of the month, TG0 launched a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign for its new finger tracking controller, the etee. In less than two weeks the goal of raising £45,900 GBP has been achieved and now the team is eyeing up the first stretch goal. And to show etee’s SteamVR compatibility TG0 has released a couple of videos playing Half-Life: Alyx....

venturebeat | February 01, 2020

The Unity game engine, which powers most of the apps on the Oculus store, now supports the Vulkan graphics API with Oculus Quest. Vulkan is the successor to OpenGL, the industry standard graphics API that has been in widespread use for over two decades. OpenGL is similar to DirectX up to version 11, but controlled by an open industry consortium and is cross platform. Like DX12 for Windows and Metal for Apple hardware, Vulkan is a “low level” graphics API (LLAPI). These APIs give deve...

investorintel | May 05, 2020

The online gambling industry has grown in leaps and bounds over the past decade. Latest figures indicate that in 2017, the size of the online gambling market was almost US$46 billion. It is expected to as much as double by 2024, according to industry research. The internet is not just for streaming movies and porn anymore, with the increase in power and usage of smartphones and tablets....