Posts tagged tech-demo 
Firefox stops being polite, starts getting Unreal Engine 4 in tech demo
Mozilla offered up a new trailer this week that shows Unreal Engine 4 tech demos running in Firefox. The games shown are seemingly running without the use of plugins in the popular browser. The software company added Unreal Engine 3 support to the browser last June....
Xbox One's Kinect to use 'time-of-flight' for more exact measurements
A recent Microsoft blog explored the technology behind the Xbox One's Kinect hardware and how "time-of-flight" is expected to be a significant improvement on the Xbox 360's version of Kinect. The tech "emits light signals and then measures how long it takes them to return," which Microsoft said n...
Oculus Rift tech demo Museum of the Microstar is full of particles
This video, courtesy of YouTuber Vaecon, offers a long look at the Oculus Rift tech demo Museum of the Microstar. It's too bad that it's not a full game, as the voice near the beginning of the demo makes us want to play it – it informs players they've been given audio implants that come wit...
PS4's AR games collection 'The Playroom' bundled with console
Sony's Playroom tech demo for the PlayStation 4, first demonstrated at E3 a few weeks back, will come packed in with every system, GameSpot reports. The demo is made up of micro and augmented reality games that include a colorful variant of Air Hockey and a mean exercise in swatting curious, flyi...
Behold all 12 minutes of Quantic Dream's The Dark Sorcerer E3 tech demo
Heavy Rain developer Quantic Dream has released a full-length version of its satirical PlayStation 4 tech demo The Dark Sorcerer, first shown at Sony's E3 press event last night. The Dark Sorcerer recasts the old man character featured in a previous Quantic Dream tech demo as a struggling acto...
Project Awakened's Unreal Engine 4 tech demo is impressive, gross
We don't know if you guys are aware of this or not, but the human body is a disgusting thing. Even the really top notch, showroom-quality human bodies are essentially sacks of greasy tubes and cartilage. Here to remind us of that fact in stunning detail is Project Awakened's Unreal Engine 4 tech d...
'Epic Citadel' tech demo now on Android
Android users still can't partake in the acclaimed slashing hijinks of Epic Games' mobile showpiece Infinity Blade or its sequel, but they can walk around its medieval setting and watch things, like, render and stuff, now that Epic Citadel is available for free on Google Play and the Amazon Appstor...
Warhorse Studios 'next-gen' tech video leaked
A video of Warhorse Studios' next-gen RPG that uses a modified version of CryEngine 3 leaked out recently. Even considering the "bootleg" feel of it, the video shows some impressive textures with murky, yet reflective water in the developer's introductory game. The video comes from a recent hour-l...
Agni's Philosophy tech demos showcase insanely detailed faces, adjustable forehead sweat
In case you missed it during E3, Agni's Philosophy is a series of real-time tech demos created by Square Enix, in order to demonstrate the power and flexibility of its "Luminous Studio" development environment/engine for next-generation video games. As is clearly evident by these two spankin' new ...
Nvidia releases 'A New Dawn' graphical tech demo
Nvidia has released an update to its famous Dawn technology demo, putting the exhaustively rendered fairy in an environment that's as lushly portrayed as the original character. This latest version for GTX cards features full DirectX 11 tesselation, with over four million triangles making up th...
