Alarms are screaming, steam is billowing everywhere, and it looks like things are about to blow. You’re standing in the outer reaches of the plant staring down some majorly malfunctioning machinery and the only person who can help is a mile away in the control room. What the heck are you going to do? That’s …
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One moment I’m in a room full of people, the next I’m in the sun-scorched Australian Outback. But it takes more than the fancy graphics of the Samsung Gear VR virtual-reality headset I’ve just lowered over my head to convince me I’m really hanging out with aborigines. What it takes, says Richard Marks of Sony’s VR arm, PlayStation Magic Lab, …
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The place: Park City, Utah. The scene: the Sundance Film Festival. Snow crunches underfoot as film industry figures, filmmakers and filmgoers hurry through the cold to catch the first glimpse of the coolest movies of 2016. But in the new year, some of the most talked-about Sundance happenings aren’t films at all. At the annual festival, which takes place in …
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I’ve just walked half a mile up a mountain in the snow, but that’s not what’s taken my breath away. That honour belongs to Quill, a new virtual-reality tool from Oculus that allows you to paint in the air around you simply by waving your hands. It’s one of many cool and clever virtual-reality developments here at the 2016 Sundance …
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Lights, camera, Samsung! The company behind the Gear VR virtual reality headset is opening a New York studio to produce new immersive experiences. Samsung announced the news here at the Sundance film festival in Park City, Utah, where virtual reality is emerging as a prominent theme. The Korean company isn’t saying any more about the new VR production studio at …
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Virtual reality is officially a funny business. “It’s the most fun way to blow people’s minds,” according to comedian Rob Huebel, one of the funny folk embracing the comic potential of VR. Huebel and regular on-screen partner Paul Scheer appear in the first virtual-reality sketch from comedy website Funny or Die. In it, Huebel and Scheer play police officers interrogating …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. From Eurovision to the The Super Bowl, some things are better watched with friends. A new app called Cast plans to help you share your viewing even with people who aren’t in the …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. We may be in the middle of a desert, but there’s been a blizzard this week — a blizzard of technology news, that is. The technology industry gathered in Las Vegas for giant …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. In the palatial surroundings of the Palazzo ballroom in the Venetian hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Netflix boss Reed Hastings dropped a bombshell on Wednesday: the streaming service is today switched on …
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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Can you put a price on a perfect pour? The cocktail-mixing “robot bartender” Somabar and the wine-dispensing D-Vine both succeeded on Kickstarter, and are now on their way to becoming real products that …
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