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Eric David

Eric David is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE, covering the latest trends in social media and gaming. He is an avid gamer and enjoys writing about innovations in the video game industry and gaming culture in general. Eric graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas, receiving major honors for his thesis "A Culture of Heresy: Explaining the Resiliency of Catharism and the Church's Response," which is every bit as exciting as it sounds. Eric lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife, dog and gaming PC.

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Oculus VR acquires 3D mapping startup Surreal Vision

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc.-owned Oculus VR has announced that it has acquired Surreal Vision, a U.K.-based startup that specializes in 3D mapping and image recognition. Surreal Vision says its company works on “bringing super-human visual perception to the emerging fields of mixed reality and …

Facebook’s EU woes continue as regulators clamp down

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc has become a veteran of the battles fought over online privacy, data security and net neutrality, and it does not look like the social network will be free from scrutiny any time soon. For several months, the social network has …

The Witcher 3 is the biggest launch of the year in the UK

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

It looks like multiple delays were not such a bad idea after all for Polish game studio CD Projekt RED. The studio’s recently released The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which had been pushed back nearly half a year, has easily topped every other game …

Linux usage on Steam is going down, not up

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Linux fans have been predicting the downfall of Windows and the rise of Linux for a while now, but it looks like Windows is still the king of PC gaming. Even worse for Linux users, it looks like usage rates of the operating …

In honor of Geek Pride Day, what is a geek?

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Long before geek became a fashion statement, it was a subcultural movement that could include everyone from band kids to mathletes and everything in between. The geek label has been applied so liberally lately that it is hard to define just what exactly a geek …

Ex-Rovio EVP Jami Laes launches new game studio: Futureplay Games

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Earlier this year, Rovio Entertainment’s head of games, Jami Laes, left the Angry Birds studio to pursue other projects, and now Laes is launching a new mobile game studio in Finland called Futureplay Games. “Mobile games are doing better than ever in the past 15 …

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