AR

• Qualcomm and Niantic Collaborating on New AR Glasses; Wildlife Studios Raises USD$60m (£45.7m)

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  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Qualcomm and Niantic collaborating on new AR glasses; Wildlife Studios raises USD$60m (£45.7m) for mobile portfolio; Gameloft closes UK studio. Qualcomm and Niantic collaborating on new AR glasses The studio behind the phenomenally popular augmented reality mobile game Pokémon GO is working with semiconductor and telecommunications equipment giant Qualcomm to develop a new AR headset. While Pokémon GO was pivotal in introducing mobile to the masses, as highlighted by [...]

• Apple AR Headset Delayed Until 2022; Stadia to Launch with 12 Titles

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  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Apple AR headset delayed until 2022; Stadia to launch with 12 titles; and Starbreeze submits plan to pay off debts. Apple AR headset delayed until 2022 Apple is due to release an augmented reality (AR) headset in 2022, followed by a more ergonomic pair of AR glasses in 2023, according to an internal presentation obtained by The Information. The purported release date goes against analyst expectations, with late [...]

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• 10 Billion Mixed Reality App Installs Predicted by 2024; MR Ad Spend to Hit USD$11bn (£8.54bn)

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  ‘Mixed reality’ content will see 10 billion app installs by 2024, up from 3 billion in 2019, says a new report. The prediction comes from research and analytics outfit Juniper Research, which has published the results of a new study titled ‘Consumer Mixed Reality: Emerging Opportunities, Vendor Strategies & Market Forecasts 2019-2024’. ‘Mixed reality’ – or ‘MR’- is a term defined slightly different in different places; particularly since it’s deployment as marketing jargon when hype around virtual reality spiked in the wake [...]

• Google Open-Sources Cardboard VR Software

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  Google has made the software for its Cardborad VR system open-source, with a view to letting third-party developers continue to support the platform and existing apps. The announcement came via a Google blog post, and is as much and end-point as it is an attempt to breath some more life into the tech giant’s VR ecosystem. Google had already dropped it’s Daydream VR mobile virtual reality system, and is no longer actively working on the VR SDK development toolset that powers [...]

• Niantic Establishes Developer Fund & Location Sponsorship; China & US Agree to Roll Back Tariffs

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  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Niantic establishes developer fund and location sponsorship; China and US agree to roll back tariffs; and US gaming spending reaches USD$9.18bn (£7.13bn) in Q3 2019. Niantic establishes developer fund and location sponsorship Niantic has announced that it has established the Niantic Creator Program, a USD$10m (£7.8m) sponsorship fund for developers of augmented reality (AR) titles. Successful applicants to the programme will also be eligible for direct support from [...]

• Apple and Valve Rumoured to be Partnering on AR Headset

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  Apple is rumoured to be working with game outfit Valve on an augmented reality headset that may be due for release next year. Citing industry sources, DigiTimes points to late 2020 as the earliest reasonable debut for unnamed headset, and identifies Taiwan’s original design manufacturing specialists Quanta Computer and Pegatron as handling the manufacturing. While the news firmly falls under ‘rumour’, there are a number of reasons the suggestion is both compelling and fascinating. Valve is the respected and often beloved video game [...]

• Bidstack Launches in the US; EA Data Breach Affects 1600 Fifa 20 Global Series Competitors

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  TheGamingEconomy Daily Digest brings you the trending business stories in gaming. In today’s edition: Bidstack launches in the US; EA data breach affects 1600 Fifa 20 Global Series competitors; and Reality Gaming Group to raise £1.5m. Bidstack launches in the US Bidstack Group PLC, an ad tech company which enables brands to purchase native in-game inventory programmatically, has launched in the US. The firm’s efforts across the Atlantic, which have been on the cards since August this year, will be led by [...]

• Admix's Vision for Ads as Game Assets: Moving From 'Ad Tech' to 'Game Development Tool'

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  Game development sometimes has a complicated relationship with ad tech. Advertising solutions might help pay the bills, but they are often seen as something ‘other’; an entity that is separated from the technology that is used to actually make games. It’s a less than elegant oversimplification, but game developers use development tools, middleware and engines to make games. After that ad tech is applied or employed to monetise games. As such you’d be forgiven for thinking there were two very distinct [...]

• Magic Leap debuts first Independent Creator Program game

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  The first game supported by Magic Leap’s Independent Creator Program has gone live for the outfit’s long-hyped AR platform. Portuguese studio ONTOP’s PuzzlAR: World Tour is a casual 3D jigsaw puzzle game, and in fact a tweaked port of a mobile game. Of course, any port top Magic Leap is going to take some effort; the AR headset user an approach to overlaying digital assets onto the real world pitched as highly distinct. Famously long in development, the Magic Leap headset has [...]

• Bigben Acquires Spiders; My.Games Incurs Impairment Charge of RUB₽630m (£7.99m)

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  TheGamingEconomy’s Daily Digest brings you the trending stories in gaming. In today’s news: Bigben acquires Spiders; My.Games incurs impairment charge of RUB₽630m (£7.99m); and Bandai Namco debuts tori, an AR-infused play kit. Bigben acquires Spiders Bigben Interactive has acquired fellow French development studio Spiders for an undisclosed sum, marking the latest in a series of acquisitions, with three other studios having been purchased in the last 18 months. The move is expected to bolster Bigben’s internal development capabilities, with the aim of [...]