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Haptics in VR gaming with Alex Meland (Haptics Club #1)

The Haptics club is an Open community about #Haptics. Founded by members of Unity, Interhaptics, Senseglove, and Nanoport. An event every other week with speakers from various industries and academia.Do you want to listen to the full podcast?Alex Meland is a Community Manager at bHaptics, and passionate about the world of haptics. bHaptics is a company that specialized in full-body haptic suits. It provides a ‘sense of touch’ to virtual reality more closely than ever before imaginable. The company believes the most elaborate haptic feedback brings gaming, entertainment, and other

Sanlo raises $3.5M to help apps and games gain access to financial insights and capital

Having a great idea for an app or game is one thing, but scaling it to become a successful business is quite another. A new fintech startup called Sanlo aims to help. The company, which is today announcing an oversubscribed $3.5 million seed round, offers small to medium-sized game and app companies access to tools to manage their finances and capital to fuel their growth. To be clear, Sanlo is not an investor that’s taking an equity stake in the apps and games it finances. Instead, it’s offering businesses access

Niantic announces ‘Niantic Lightship’ and its accompanying Augmented Reality Developer Kit

In Augmented Reality News  May 12, 2021 – Niantic, developer of Pokémon GO, and provider of a ‘planet-scale’ augmented reality (AR) platform, has announced that its ‘Niantic Real World Platform’ is getting a new name — Niantic Lightship — and that the company will be offering broader access to the new Niantic Lightship Augmented Reality Developer Kit (ARDK), enabling developers to build their own immersive, imaginative and unique AR applications. Niantic Lightship encompasses the full Niantic platform, including the suite of tools and services that power Niantic games, from Ingress

Pinnacle Imaging Systems™ Announces Denali™ 3.0 Soft ISP & HDR…

Pinnacle Imaging's Denali 3.0 HDR Soft ISP is Available on the Xilinx Kria SOM and AI Starter Kit “The beauty of our programmable ISP on the Xilinx platform, is that it is easy for us to customize it to meet specific customers’ needs or adapt it to any sensor type, even those with non-traditional color filter arrays." - Alfred Zee, CEO of Pinnacle Imaging Systems SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) April 20, 2021 Today, Pinnacle Imaging Systems™, a developer of Image Signal Processors (ISP) and High Dynamic Range (HDR) video solutions, announced

Apple’s Actions Against Epic Games and Unreal Engine Could Affect PUBG MOBILE, Peacekeeper Elite

The battle between Apple and Epic Games over Fortnite and in-app purchases has gone nuclear after the companies traded lawsuits and threats over a dispute that could impact hundreds of millions of players around the world. The new lawsuit comes after Apple told Epic that it would take actions that would directly affect Unreal Engine 4, Epic’s game development platform. Epic Games filed a lawsuit Monday in the District Court for the Northern District of California against Apple seeking a temporary restraining order “from removing, de-listing, refusing to list or

Apple Looking to Nuke Epic’s Entire Developer Agreement, Including Unreal Engine, in Retaliation for ‘Fortnite’ Fiasco

Well, I’m sure we all remember the rapidly escalating drama between Apple and Epic Games from last week. In short, Epic implemented an alternate payment method into Fortnite on iOS allowing users to purchase the in-game currency V-Bucks directly through Epic at a 20% discount. This was in response to a long-held belief from Epic Games and specifically CEO Tim Sweeney that digital storefronts like the App Store take far too large of a cut of the profits (30%) and that their strict guidelines create a monopolistic position. The alternate

Our favorite games from the Itch.io racial justice bundle

Last month’s Itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality was a massive hit with gamers, raising over eight million dollars for the NAACP and Community Bail Fund. The key to its success was the sheer size of its offering for a $5 minimum donation: 1,741 products from 1,391 different creators. It’s a motley collection of video games, development tools, tabletop RPGs, comics and zines. There are some well-known titles in there like Night in the Woods and Octodad, but sorting through the rest of the pile is an absolutely massive