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June Steam hardware survey: The Rift-Vive gap shrinks … sort of
Posted in Games, Hardware on 7th Jul, 2019
by Alex Muller
The Oculus Rift still leads the charge with 44.12% of the overall VR headset use on Steam. Pairing the 40.76% share that HTC Vive has with the 1.66% share of the Vive Pro, HTC is at 42.42%. That’s a difference of just 1.7% between the two headsets.

At 10, Minecraft hits 176 million sales and announces AR game for iOS and Android
Posted in Games on 18th May, 2019
by Alex Muller
Developer Mojang is working on a new game in the beloved franchise. No, it’s not Minecraft 2. But it has the potential to be bigger than that.

PTN interviews Steve Dann: Chairman of Medical Realities, Founder of Amplified Robot
Posted in Business, Games, Hardware, Interviews on 12th May, 2019
by Alex Muller
An acknowledged leading expert in Augmented & Virtual Reality, Steve is also the founder and organizer of the Augmenting Reality Meetup Group, which meets to discuss, view and demonstrate the latest innovations in both AR and VR.

Elon Musk Urges for Human-Machine Brain Link After OpenAI's 'Dota' Win
Posted in Games on 6th Aug, 2018
by Alex Muller
Musk is reiterating the need for a brain-computer interface that would enable man and super-smart machine to coexist peacefully.

Steam drops Bitcoin cryptocurrency due to volatility and $20 transaction fees
Posted in Business on 6th Dec, 2017
by Alex Muller
Bitcoin is causing too many complications for Valve, so the company has announced that it will no longer accept the digital cryptocurrency.