Maximum PC: The Game Developers Conference ended a week ago, but before it did, we had a chance to visit with Razer and spy a sneak peek of its newest mechanical keyboard for gamers, the BlackWidow X.
Now a week later, we're finally allowed to show the video and talk about the keyboard. Razer's design philosophy with the BlackWidow X was to make it more compact and give gamers yet another option to choose from in the continually growing BlackWidow family.
Manus VR, developers of a glove for virtual reality offers VRFocus readers the lowdown on the company's time at GDC 2016.
The Wall Street Journal: Microsoft Corp. apologized after a party it hosted on the sidelines of a major videogame-industry conference last week included women in sexualized outfits who danced and mingled with attendees.
Microsoft’s Xbox party took place Thursday night in San Francisco, amid the Game Developers Conference and just hours after Microsoft held a networking luncheon for women in the industry. It also came nearly a week after the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, where a summit focused on online harassment in the industry.
Oh for Christs sake Microsoft, man up and quit being such politically correct wusses.
Maximum PC: Xsens has been working on 3D motion tracking technology for the past decade and a half. However, the bulk of its solutions up to this point have focused on athletics, 3D character animation, and industrial applications. With VR positioned to disrupt the consumer market, Xsens saw an opportunity to extend its reach to a new audience with a full-body VR motion suit. Our own Jimmy Thang had a chance to try it on and talk with Xsens about its new product.
"How does it work?" "You slide." "Slide?" "Yeah, your feet just slide, it's like trying to walk up a slide. Only that slide is in the shape of a bowl." "COOL!"
