Pinć is the portable VR experience you wear on your face and control with your hands

This could be the future of shopping, entertainment and communication. Or it could just be another solution looking for a problem.

A Polish perspective on Hatred, the controversial game about mass murder

One side says this hurts Eastern Europe’s hotbed for gaming development.

Spyder 3D World Adds 3D Printer Directory

Adding another dimension to the sharing economy, Spyder 3D World today announced the addition of a local printer directory to its growing online community. For those who want their makes printed on demand, the directory provides an opportunity…

Get Even keeps you guessing who’s human and who’s A.I. in its ultrarealistic scanned environments

The Farm 51 is looking to marry stunning photo-realistic visuals with a strong story and an innovative, converging multiplayer feature.

New to deep learning? Here are 4 easy lessons from Google

Google employs some of the world’s smartest researchers in deep learning and artificial intelligence, so it’s not a bad idea to listen to what they have to say about the space. One of those researchers, senior research scientist Greg Corrado, spoke at RE:WORK’s Deep Learning Summit on Thursday in San Francisco and gave some advice on when, […]

Why even basic accessories can make virtual reality seem real

There is an alien in the space station. The motion tracker scans my surroundings, but nothing moves. I creep into the next room and duck behind a stack of cargo. The rumble of the spacecraft creeps up my spine as I stare at the tracker. Suddenly, there is a blip. The alien’s steps grow louder. […]

Cloud telco Nexmo saw its network traffic double in 2014

Nexmo, a telecom carrier that offers communications services from the cloud, had quite the 2014 as it saw the calls to various APIs double. Like its larger and better-known rival Twilio, Nexmo sells access to voice, SMS and other old-school telco services to developers, which they can embed into their apps and websites with only a few […]

Google’s Chromecast has been used for more than one billion casts

Google still hasn’t released any sales numbers for its Chromecast streaming stick, but Google’s Chief Business officer Omid Kordestani updated investors on one metric during the company’s Q4 call Thursday: Chromecast reached one billion cast sessions last week, Kordestani said. This means that Chromecast usage seems to be accelerating: Google VP of product management Mario […]

Jeff Bezos: Raising the price of Amazon Prime was a great decision

Raising the price of Amazon Prime to $99 from $79 was the right decision, Jeff Bezos crowed in the company’s Q4 2014 earnings report released Thursday. “The data is in and customers agree,” Bezos said: On a base of tens of millions, worldwide paid membership grew 53 percent last year — 50 percent in the […]