How Improbable is banking on Midwinter’s Scavengers to prove its game platform. Scavengers aims to be a unique strategic survival battleground game where teams of players fight other teams and also fight off dangerous monsters […]
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NextMind’s Brain Sensing Wearable
NextMind’s Dev Kit for mind-controlled computing offers a rare ‘wow’ factor in tech. NextMind debuted its Dev Kit hardware at CES last year, but the hardware is now actually shipping, and the startup shared with […]
Privacy Concerns about Facebook’s VR Wristband
Facebook says its system will be able to adapt to the individual behaviours of its users by using machine learning to predict their likes, dislikes and other interests, in real time. ProPrivacy digital expert Ray […]
Facebook Demos Augmented Reality Interface
Facebook has offered a glimpse inside its plans for a new augmented reality interface. In a video, it shows off wristbands that use electromyography (EMG) to translate subtle neural signals into actions — like typing, […]
Why Do People Love Games?
Games are a controlled form of freedom. Our brains grab onto them because they are structures that exist to be avoided. Games occupy a strange place in our cultural consciousness. Nearly everyone has played a […]
Why Does Fortnite Have a Narrative?
Epic’s chief creative officer, Donald Mustard, explains the game’s bold narrative ambitions. It’s a game where 100 players drop onto a cartoonish island, dress up as bananas or Star Wars heroes, gather up guns and […]
The Metaverse
The Metaverse will require countless new technologies, protocols, companies, innovations, and discoveries to work. And it will slowly emerge over time. The most common conceptions of the Metaverse stem from science fiction. Here, the Metaverse […]
How Role-Playing can Transform our Communities
When we imagine ourselves becoming someone else, we tap into our latent potential as human beings and as a community. When the group agrees to “pretend to believe” in these transformations, we create space in […]
Fear and Loathing in Animal Crossing
It’s hard to believe that such a pure, wholesome game could become an object of dread. “Where have you been all this time?” A wave of guilt washed over me as I read these words […]