Apps and Software

This year's Mobile World Congress did not disappoint, from the unveiling of Samsung's Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge to HTC's first VR headset.

We'll tell you what you need to know about the biggest products in a live Hangout on Air at 2 p.m. ET on Friday, March 6Mashable's senior tech analyst Christina Warren will be joined by tech editor Pete Pachal, chief correspondent Lance Ulanoff and European editor Stan Schroeder, who attended Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

What questions do you have about the products unveiled at Mobile World Congress this year? Tweet them with the hashtag #MashTalk or ask them in the Q&A app on the Hangout page and we'll answer them during the discussion. ...

In a sea of booths, tethered smartphones and developers at this week's Game Developers Conferences (GDC) in San Francisco, virtual reality had another “moment."

Virtually everywhere you looked, VR reared its headSony showed off an updated version of its headset, Project Morpheus, due out the first half of next year. Smartphone maker HTC trotted out a headset called Vive for a holiday 2015 release

Meanwhile, Oculus demoed the latest Rift prototype called Crescent Bay. Less than 10 yards away from the company's massive makeshift lounge in the Exhibition Hall, players tried out a device on Back to Dinosaur Island, which sent them sprinting, leaping, crouching and otherwise yelping around a Jurassic Park-esque scene while a T-Rex hunted them through Cretaceous period flora. ...

Microsoft just moved one step closer to bringing Windows and Xbox gaming together. The Xbox Live SDK, which allows developers to build Xbox One-compatible apps, is now beginning to roll out to game developers

Microsoft's head of Xbox, Phil Spencer, announced the news Wednesday during a session at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco

It's unclear when the new SDK, which is currently being used by a small group of early partners, will be more widely available, but Microsoft says it will be "soon." It will allow game makers to create universal Windows 10 apps that can easily run across the Xbox One, PCs, as well as Windows tablets and phones. It also lets Windows app developers easily port their apps to the Xbox. ...