The Nex Playground brings motion-tracked games to the entire family. Consider it the best of the Xbox Kinect in a tiny box. Honestly, I'm just happy it gets my kids off the couch. I do my best to ...

The prototype represents Google’s push into immersive content creation, potentially challenging companies like Unity, which provides tools for game developers, and platforms like Roblox, which offers ...

Google is wading into “dynamic worlds,” and that’s spooking investors in Unity Software and other gaming-related stocks on Friday. At issue is Project Genie, an “experimental research prototype” that ...

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