
The DeanBeat: 10 predictions for games in 2017

Oculus’ ‘Dear Angelica’ VR film debuts at Sundance Film Festival

How to watch Donald Trump’s inauguration online (drinks sold separately)

U.S. gaming industry earned $30.4 billion in 2016, up from 2015

Silicon Studio adapts Graphine’s texture software for console, PC, and VR development

Two Bit Circus raises $15 million to build next-generation micro-amusement parks

DigiLens raises $22 million to make ‘eyeglass-thin’ augmented reality displays

HTC launches $10 million VR fund to promote the planet’s sustainability

Pokémon Go fights poverty with 17 PokéStops at the World Economic Forum

MIT launches Play Labs to help AR, VR, and AI startups get off the ground

South Korea’s YJM Games invests in The VR Fund

MMOne unveils commercial version of insane giant simulator arm for wild VR rides

GAConf event to tackle how to make games more accessible to everyone

Katia Beauchamp, AI everywhere, and signing 1 million subscribers – VB Engage

Survios to launch Raw Data game in virtual reality arcades

ZeniMax doubles-down in statement against Oculus VR as trial begins (update)

Hypersuit promises to let you fly through virtual reality

Spaces gets another $6.5 million for its VR theme park dreams

China cites national security as it bans Pokémon Go and other AR games

Zuckerberg to testify in $2 billion lawsuit that claims Oculus used stolen technology

RIP, Guerrilla Cambridge: Remembering the shuttering studio that made Rigs for PSVR

Otoy adds lightfield baking and other tools to its Unity integration

GamesBeat weekly roundup: Nintendo shows off the Switch

The People’s House: The Obamas show off the White House in virtual reality

Game developers are optimistic about Nintendo Switch sales

Eonite debuts a new kind of low-cost sensor for virtual reality

How Restream.io is freeing live video content from YouTube and Twitch

The tantalizing promise of augmented reality games

Will Japanese VR sex simulation with dolls fly in the U.S.?

Amplifying New Voices trains diverse professionals to be great speakers and leaders

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VR funding and innovation look strong for 2017

Indeed: U.S. game developer job postings have dropped 65% since 2014

Virtuleap hackathon generates a bunch of WebVR projects

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The dream of Ara: Inside the rise and fall of the world’s most revolutionary phone

Robert Scoble, CES madness, and the iPhone 8 rumor mill – VB Engage

CES 2017: Our 66 best photos from tech’s biggest show

This e-skin from Xenoma captures your body’s motion for games

Google opens Tango augmented reality platform to museums, starting with Detroit Institute of Arts

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How Oasis Games is creating a console beachhead for Chinese game makers
