AR games

Niantic and Playcrafting Partner for Augmented Reality Jam

Top GamesThe global game jam will make use of Niantic's Lightship tool kit. / Photo courtesy of NianticNiantic, the developer behind Pokémon GO and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, and Playcrafting, a New York-based game development company, announced a partnership Wednesday that will see them host a global augmented reality software jam this summer.The Lightship Global Jam will consist of three events from June to September. Sixty developers will be chosen and paid to participate, and they'll be taught how to use the Niantic Lightship Augmented Reality Developer Kit to create

‘It’s Trash’: Glow Up Games CXO Latoya Peterson on the State of Diversity in Games

Latoya Peterson is tired of the games industry ignoring Black women, and now she's ready to do something about it. | Photo courtesy of Glow Up GamesThe video game industry is as prone to systemic oppression as any other. Developers of color, and perhaps particularly Black developers, face an uphill battle for employment, let alone creative expression. With this series of features, DBLTAP hopes to highlight the creations of Black developers working to tell their own stories through games in this monthly series. Check out our previous entries here.Issa Dee

South Korean company MAXST launches spatial Augmented Reality platform ‘MAXST VPS’ for 3D mapping

In Augmented Reality News  February. 9, 2021 – MAXST, a provider of an augmented reality (AR) software development kit (SDK) based in South Korea, has today announced the launch of its spatial AR platform, MAXST VPS. ‘VPS’ (Visual Positioning Service) is technology that pinpoints a user’s location by constructing a 3D spatial map for both indoor and outdoor AR content creations. According to the company, the notion that VPS substitutes GPS is an understatement, since GPS technology malfunctions during indoor use and can include location errors for outdoor operation, in

Top 3 Games for PS5

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Remote AR multiplayer for gaming and entertainment

SourceOver half of the Augmented Reality market is gaming and entertainment, but the number of AR games is still far from what we see in non-AR gaming categories.Looking at non-AR app stores, the new game charts in every country are full of casual or even hyper casual games. However, most of top grossing apps include more challenging mechanics. There are games in very different genres, from match-three games like Homescapes to battle royale games like PUBG or Fortnite, but you’ll notice that almost any given app from this chart shares

Left 4 Dead creator Mike Booth joins AR/VR studio Resolution Games

Following his exit from Facebook VR, veteran developer Mike Booth is headed to Resolution Games to join its board of directors. Back in December 2019, Mike Booth left management of Facebook VR rather abruptly. At the time, he mentioned that he had “unfinished business in the traditional video game space.” While it remains unclear what the veteran Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, and Counter-Stike: Condition Zero developer had planned to pursue this cryptic statement, he at least has somewhere to be in the meantime. Booth is joining Stockholm AR