What would truly get you to buy a VR headset? How about a $199 price? Facebook just announced Oculus Go, a standalone headset that doesn’t require a PC or a phone to get you into VR, at the company’s Oculus Connect developer conference. It’s coming in early 2018 for $199, or roughly £150 or …
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What’s the state of Facebook’s virtual-reality technology? We’ll find out today in San Jose. Oculus, the social network’s VR subsidiary, kicks off its fourth annual developers conference today in the heart of Silicon Valley. But with the virtual-reality movement seemingly stuck in neutral, the company has more to prove than ever. The day one keynote is scheduled to run from …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Online hate brought offline. In Real Life/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET What’s the worst thing anyone’s ever said to you online? One of my favorites was a person who told me that every day he wished I’d never been born. He managed to time it …
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Virtual reality was one of the marquee tech trends of last year, but it’s gone a little stale. Facebook is trying to shake that up with its Oculus Connect developer conference Wednesday. Special guest CNET editor Scott Stein and I talk about what it’s going to take for virtual reality to be something anyone would want — and not just …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. As the launch of iPhone X gets closer, it’s fair to ask: “Is anyone really excited?” At the time of its unveiling, I talked to real people who mostly felt very meh about Apple’s so-called “smartphone of the future.” Yet along comes investment bank Piper …
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Apple fans aren’t the only people excited for the iPhone X‘s release — scammers are, too. The iPhone X isn’t available until Nov. 3, but thieves are already spamming social networks with schemes trying to trick you into giving away personal information. These scams are designed to look like free iPhone X giveaway offers. ZeroFOX, a social media security company, …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Now playing: Watch this: Zuckerberg blasted for tone-deaf ‘magical’ VR tour of… 1:47 Enlarge Image They’re really suffering. Let’s high-five. screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET The streets behind him were flooded. Residents had likely lost everything they owned. So it was time for a high-five between …
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Are you going to buy a virtual reality headset? Seriously. Are you? I’m not the only one who wants to know. The VR industry is having an awkward moment. Though headset makers have spent years and billions of dollars promising world-changing technology, relatively few of us have actually lined up to buy them. That sales problem is likely to be …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Enlarge Image Once upon a time, there was a world beyond the screen … Getty Images Taking responsibility for what you’ve gone and done is hard. Especially when you’re in the tech industry and insist you’re making the world a better place. Yet some, at …
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