I faced off with a fellow CNET editor, lightsaber ready. His was ready, too. We stared at each other in our mirror-lensed headsets, and started swinging away. Multiplayer AR, kinda-sorta, has arrived. Disney and Lenovo teamed up last year to make a Star Wars-themed AR headset toy, Star Wars Jedi Challenges, that uses a phone …
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Today’s deal is a rerun of the best kind: Lower price, vetted (by me) product. For a limited time, and while supplies last, Amazon has the Smartomi HAP-1 Bluetooth neckband earphones for $9.90, shipped free with Prime. That’s after applying promo code 551KV4KE at checkout, or you can just click this link and it’ll get applied automatically. Update: Alas, these …
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Last year, I played Super Mario in AR on a Hololens. The maker of that game, Abhishek Singh, told me he would be focusing on mobile games and ARKit in the future. Now he has another AR gaming idea he’s brewed up: Street Fighter II in AR, using ARKit on an iPhone, so you can literally fight in the street. …
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I wore a heart rate-measuring hat once, but I’ve never tried a heart-rate gaming headband. It’s beeping and glowing red, because I guess I’ve already lost my cool. That’s 2018. Hasbro’s upcoming $20 game for kids and families and whoever else, Don’t Lose Your Cool, involves a heart-rate sensor headband with a crazy light-up indicator light pole that sticks out …
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The much anticipated Apple event came and went. Apple took the wraps off a whole pack of new products — from its new Apple Watch Series 3 and the Apple TV 4K to the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus and its high-tech new flagship iPhone X. During CNET’s live blogging of the show, our staff was dishing out polls for …
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Now playing: Watch this: These robots are coming for your children 1:48 Barbie is listening for your questions. BB-8 will roll to you when called. And Tyler the Furreal tiger is responding to your roars. Voice recognition software is just one way this year’s toys are becoming more lifelike. At the New York Toy Fair, we got a peek at …
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Now playing: Watch this: Air Hogs introduces FPV flying to its DR1 racing drone… 1:00 Air Hogs’ next line of toy drones will lower the price and difficulty barriers for racing drones. The $100 DR1 FPV Race Drone (about £80 or AU$130) is a palm-sized quad with a camera in front that will live stream video to a phone you …
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Now playing: Watch this: Aura is a drone you fly with hand gestures 1:03 Toy drones continue to get smarter and more stable. Their controllers, on the other hand, remain a mess of sticks, buttons and switches that take a lot of practice to master. The Aura drone from KD Interactive, on display this weekend at the New York Toy …
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If you like wearing things on your head, 2017 is looking like a good year. Toy Fair is here in New York this weekend, and with it comes a taste of the geek toys of the year. At Hasbro’s preview event, the most notable headgear was a Guardians of the Galaxy high-end Star-Lord helmet. It won’t be out in time …
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