You can’t escape virtual reality. VR headsets from Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo and Samsung are getting ready to hit the market. Their goal: to give you an easy-to-use virtual reality experience with your PC at a lower price than competing headsets from the likes of Sony, Facebook and HTC. That’s the promise of VR powered …
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Facebook is trying again to be cool with teens. The tech giant said Monday it’s buying tbh, a social network popular with teens that lets people send compliments to each other through anonymous quizzes. Facebook didn’t disclose an acquisition price. Facebook will let tbh, which stands for “to be honest,” operate as it did before, similar to how it runs …
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A new breed of apps is overlaying computer images on the real world so you can identify constellations in the sky, organize your future living room and even live in a hit music video. So, the NBA says, why not shoot digital basketballs too? On Monday, the NBA released a new free iPhone app called NBA AR, designed to bring …
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Mark Zuckerberg wants to turn you — and another 999,999,999 people — into VR believers. As part of Facebook‘s latest quest to make virtual reality an everyday part of our lives, the company’s CEO is bringing out the biggest weapon he can think of to win over customers: deals he thinks you can’t refuse. The world’s biggest social network, which …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Not a nice man. I mean, of course, the cartoon version. Comedy Central screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Mark Zuckerberg has become something of a target lately. Which is odd for someone who runs a social network that has so much influence and seems reluctant to …
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It’s not just Facebook, Twitter and Google. Even Pokemon Go, the mega-popular smartphone game that became a phenomenon last year, was the target of Russian agents trying to meddle with the 2016 US election, according to a report Thursday by CNN. The effort was allegedly centered on a campaign called “Don’t Shoot Us,” an apparent reference “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” …
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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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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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“At every step along the way, the future is built by people who believe it can be better.” That’s the message that Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, brought to the company’s fourth annual Oculus Connect virtual reality developer conference Wednesday. As in previous years, Zuckerberg took the stage to discuss the promise of what virtual reality can be and to show …
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The Oculus Rift, Facebook’s PC-based VR system, has great controllers but it lacks the stand-up camera sensors it needs to work in a full room like a holodeck, like its rival the HTC Vive. That sounds like it’s changing next year with a “Santa Cruz” Rift model that will leave those sensors behind. It was announced in a keynote Wednesday at the Oculus …
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