Over the past year, two trends have emerged among augmented reality development software: make it easier to create AR content, and give AR apps better environmental understanding with just a smartphone camera.
Location-based gaming pioneer Niantic has been preparing its flavor of AR cloud, the Niantic Real World Platform, to bring more realistic and interactive augmented reality experiences to mobile apps. And now the company is looking for a few good developers to help execute its vision on the platform.
Play the Sad Mummy as your champion! This video goes into strategies and tips when you play the League of Legends character Amumu the Sad Mummy. Watch Amumu in play and see the best way to use his unique and passive abilities to ensure victory for your team!
When the Super Bowl airs, every other TV network puts on reruns because no one wants to face that juggernaut for ratings. The launch of a new iPhone is the Super Bowl of the tech world, with the launch of the iPhone X being the biggest one yet.
Though the Golden State Warriors won the crown as the NBA's best team again this season, the Sacramento Kings continue their rule as the sport's technology leader, debuting their new uniforms from Nike through augmented reality today.
If you want to track your fantasy football team's performance on game days, take a look at this video from ESPN discussing the Fantasy Cast application on the iPad or computer and the mobile webpage that will allow you to track your team's points instantly, across all games that are occuring on that day. No matter what, you'll be able to know how your ESPN fantasy football team is performing.
The recent pitfalls and media fallout hitting Facebook hasn't stopped the social media giant from looking to the future.
Google's former driverless car boss Chris Urmson raised considerable funds to get his new startup company Aurora Innovation up and running. Axios initially reported that Urmson raised over $3 million to fund his brainchild in the wake of his Alphabet exit, according to an SEC filing.
A gold-medal winning entry into the iGEM synthetic biology competition could change the way we look at Esherichia coli, the bacteria better known as E. coli.
Skarner is a crystal scorpion style champion in League of Legends that fights in melee range. Take a look at this guide from Riot Games to learn how to use his abilities, including his ultimate--impale, which allows you to drag your opponent with you.
The co-op story mode in the new Splinter Cell: Conviction game has plenty of missions, which allow you and a buddy to play next to each other in front of one Xbox 360. Achievement Hunter presents this three-part video which gives a walkthrough on the 2nd mission in the co-op story mode: Russian Embassy. Jack and Geoff walk you through the Consular Offices, Public Building, and Rooftop until you finally tag team the helicopter ride home.
Need to make an newsletter for your company or business? It's really not that hard to do, if you know a little bit about HTML coding. Ryan Quintal and the Email Dance House sits you down and shows you how easy it is to make a custom HTML email from design to Constant Contact.
Check out this Smart Show video by the Holiday Inn Express Hotels, which shows you how to have a little fun in the office. You can have your very own Office Olympics. Learn some basic team building skills, and learn how to play the games, like Post-It Note fencing, trashketball, and rubber band archery. Learn to work as a team, learn to have fun. The best thing here is learning how to Fence in the office with Post-It Notes. Yes!
Warwick is one of the champions your summoner can bring onto the Fields of Justice, whose speciality is jungling. This tutorial lays out the best items, glyphs and masteries to take advantage of his innate talents so you can ensure victory in your next League of Legends game.
Time to get started playing League of Legends! This recently released game is a completely free to play multiplayer online battle area game. Play a powerful summoner and pit your chosen champion against your oppnents and defend your tower! Here's an easy guide to getting started playing League of Legends.
Your summoner is the core character in your League of Legends game, the one who summons the champions to fight on your behalf on the Fields of Justice. Going screenshot by screenshot, the summoner aspect of the game is explained. Stay up to date on your score, monitor your champions and keep track of your points!
Runes are special abilities in the game which allow you customize your summoner in League of Legends. Here's how to equip runes and unlock the abilities to accumulate more runes. You can even save rune configurations in your tome and combine them to create special runes!
This spotlight focuses on Garen, the Might of Demacia, a melee champion who can be brutal with a sword. This video goes over how his abilities let him deal a great deal of damage to others while taking very little himself. Here are also some useful strategies when it comes to playing Garen in a battle.
Is Kennen one of your favorite champions to play for League of Legends? This strategy guide goes over how to best use the unique abilities, masteries and optimal items to make sure this tiny ninja fights his best for your summoner!
Keep your enemies at bay and control as much space on the map with your champion as possible. This tutorial shows you how to dominate the map for greater control during your League of Legends game. Be aware of your surroundings, and learn a few tricks to get out of a bad spot when you're trapped by enemies.
The idea of remote assistant apps in augmented reality has been taking off in the last couple of years, but Epson is introducing a differing kind of solution for companies that may benefit from a more straightforward dynamic before going full-on immersive with higher-end AR remote assistance tools.
Amazon Web Service's do-it-yourself tool for building augmented reality experiences and VR has graduated from beta and is now available to all interested users.
This video is a demonstration of how to play a drinking game called flip cup. You'll need a stack of 16 oz. plastic beer cups, a long table, and beer. First pick two teams of four to ten players. Teams stand on opposite sides of the table and fill the cups with beer. The lead players drink, then set the cup down so that part of it is off the edge of the table. Then they flip the cups so that they land upside down on the table. The next player on each team has to wait until their teammate has ...
Watchout! Snowballs! You’re outside. You’re getting pummeled with snowballs. Time to build a snow fort and set-up teams... The snow war is on!
Want to play a pirate in League of Legends? Go with Gangplank, the Saltwater Scourge! He can put out an amazing amount of damage while giving some good buffs to his teammates. This tutorial shows you the best way to put this pirate to work for your summoner on the Fields of Justice.
Kennen, along with Shen, is another ninja you can play on the Fields of Justice. This tutorial goes into some useful strategy tips when you pick Kennen as your champion. He excels at crowd control, but can sometimes be squishy. Make sure you play him effectively!
Pantheon is a hoplite-style champion you can play on the Fields of Justice. This tutorial goes into the mechanics behind the Artisan of War, and shows you the best items, abilities and strategy to employ when you take him into battle.
Personalize your League of Legends champions by altering their skins! This method will only change their appearance for you. This shows you how to obtain custom skins and apply them to your favorite champion (or one you just want to change around).
Even if you're not a graphic artist, you can still use Photoshop to recolor the available skins for your League of Legends character. This tutorial shows you the tools and techniques to create your own skins for your favorite champion.
Minions are computer generated NPCs that spawn from the base nexus and attack enemies. You can't control your minions, but you can influence them by using smite and heal on them. Use your minions well and you'll win your games on the Fields of Justice!
In League of Legends, you play the role of a powerful summoner, who may bring other champions to do battle on your behalf at the Fields of Justice. This short video explains how you can track your game stats and maintain your stable of champions using the summoner screens in the game.
With all of the technology available today, which do you use to be your personal alarm clock? You can have a huge, bulky alarm clock, you can use your computer, and you can have one of those small, portable analog clock, but why use them if you have an iPhone? The iPhone has a built-in alarm clock that's perfect for cutting down on the bulk of life. So, how do you use it? Best Buy has answers. The Best Buy Mobile team explains how simple it is to set an alarm on an iPhone with the built-in cl...
After winning the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, the USA Women's National Soccer Team is ready to defend its title in the 2019 tournament.
Microsoft Research has published a technical paper reviewing their work with near-eye displays for virtual and augmented reality to project phase-only holograms.
Microsoft Build 2017, the first of Microsoft's big developer conferences for the year, is just a few weeks away. This very popular conference, which has been going on since 2011, is known to sell out fast. In 2015, it sold out in under an hour, and in 2016, in less than 5 minutes. This year was no different, according to VentureBeat; While not quite as fast as last year with so many rumors of HoloLens on the horizon at the time, this year's Build was sold out in 8 hours. And for this year's B...
It may seem strange to find the director of engineering at a question-and-answer site all of a sudden pick up and lead a new driverless startup, but to Kah Seng Tay, both engineering tasks require building the right infrastructure to handle large amounts of AI data.
Not content with bringing the first untethered mixed reality headset to market, Microsoft wants to expand their Windows Holographic operating system beyond HoloLens into vastly more robust technologies.
The Eagles may very well be the most played team in the Madden NFL 12, and for good reason--they're the strongest team in the game. Don't worry about forfeiting games when you see them on the other side, with this guide from EA Sports you'll learn how to slow down Michael Vick, use a Sugar Blitz for a strong defensive play, and take advantage of their weak lineback and safety.
Ezreal is a champion you can bring onto the Fields of Justice. This video demonstrates what Ezreal, a strong ranged fighter, can do and the best ways to use him in combat. Here are a few good strategy tips when it comes to scaling his abilities, and a few ideas on how to fight certain opponents.
This video series takes you through every step of building a building in SketchUp and is taken from chapter 4 of "Google SketchUp for Dummies" in case you want to follow along. PART 1 explains how to switch to a 2D view to get you ready to build the floor plan. It's a good idea to have accurate measurements of everything you want to build before starting this project. PART 2 familiarizes you with the tools available in SketchUp to help you create your floorplan. PART 3 shows you how to draw t...
