Games/Interactive

Walt Disney Animation Studios is set to share its first VR short, a film called Cycles that took four months to create. The short will make its debut at the Association for Computi... More

We all love the special effects in our favorite films, games, and animated TV shows. But it’s still a pretty complex process to create these fanciful scenes that are better than ... More

Over the next two years, enterprises are expected to ramp up their efforts to test blockchain technology as part of a new method of establishing trust in a digital economy. New res... More

Online game events can be disastrous. Just ask “Pokémon Go” developer Niantic, whose inaugural Pokémon Go Fest was plagued by connectivity issues. Better yet, ask any MMO pla... More

Amazon will provide a new set of real-time statistics and graphics on live baseball games later this season, expanding its cloud computing deal with U.S. Major League Baseball, the... More

It’s impossible to say precisely how artificial intelligence will disrupt the job market, so researchers at PwC have taken a birds eye view from the top down, and pointed to the ... More

Apple announced today that it will add over 70 new emoji to its 2018 operating system releases, enabling iOS 12, macOS Mojave, and watchOS 5 users to further customize the hair and... More

Facebook yesterday announced a group of new tools for retailers to cater to shoppers this holiday season. Facebook has been testing out an augmented reality ad feature for its news... More

Augmented reality is on the cusp of being one of the technological advances that are all but guaranteed to change our day-to-day behavior. Imagine living in a world filled with "mo... More

Tencent, which runs the world's largest video games business by revenue, is set to launch the international version of its WeGame store and social platform in Hong Kong, with the a... More

Research from Parks Associates examining emerging trends in the esports entertainment industry has found that 10% of US broadband households are watching this new form of content.... More

This project was the latest in IBM Research’s goal to build a system “that helps people make evidence-based decisions when answers aren’t black-and-white.” Debate not only ... More

Facebook is pouring massive amounts of money and computing power into AI. Its overall R&D budget was $1.3 billion, though it does not disclose how much of that is artificial intell... More

Box announced today that it has acquired Butter.ai, a startup that helps customers search for content intelligently in the cloud. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the ... More

A decade ago, Apple opened a store peddling iPhone apps, unlocking the creativity of software developers and letting users truly make their mobile devices their own. The resulting ... More

Facebook is getting into the augmented reality advertising business, entering a space previously dominated by Snap. Facebook announced Tuesday that it would begin offering AR ads i... More

PwC France has announced a partnership with the Request Network Foundation, which allows the joint development of innovative blockchain solutions. The partnership will enable PwC s... More

Despite the dire predictions and well-publicized missteps, AI — when implemented correctly — can be a great boon to customer experiences and digital transformations. AI can imp... More

A crucial difference from over-the-top video is the technology and code underneath: since games are interactive, it’s impossible to, for example, send chunks of a show ahead of w... More

NEW YORK — Google and BBC are upbeat about the possibilities of virtual reality (VR) despite lingering challenges that the technology still faces in reaching a mass audience, acc... More