I looked at my colleague as we took a breather at the bathroom sink, moments after we had sat together in a boat. With VR helmets on. No, we weren’t exactly sure what just happened, either. We were right off the Highline — the elevated park and major tourist attraction –at Samsung’s flagship 837 showroom …
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If you’re over pricey VR apps, stick around. Facebook-owned Oculus is cutting weary users of Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR some slack when it comes to returning apps you did not like. The new policy, announced on Tuesday, lets you easily request an automatic refund on most apps and games, no questions asked. You get the process started by looking …
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Big, expensive crystal home-decor pieces aren’t for everyone, or even most people. But for the few who are on the market for items such as crystal vases and bowls, shopping may have gotten a bit easier. Mastercard and Swarovski said Monday they’ve teamed up to create a new virtual-reality shopping app for browsing through a virtual home filled with crystal …
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella showed off upcoming mixed reality hardware and software as part of his keynote at the Microsoft Ignite conference, saying the business will enhance both security and collaboration. Ignite is an IT-focused event held in Orlando, and during his keynote, Nadella spoke of Microsoft’s mission to use “technology to empower people,” and AI to transform tools and …
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With the flood of iPhone publicity this last month — this last decade, actually — you might think personal computers have become ho-hum. But Ron Coughlin doesn’t. The leader of HP‘s PC division thinks his industry has snatched the initiative for technological improvements back from phones. “The innovation is happening in PCs,” Coughlin said in an interview with CNET. His …
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Microsoft Ignite, the company’s big conference dedicated to IT, kicked off earlier today in Orlando, Florida. And that means a boatload of news about Windows, Office, Azure, Skype — and everything else in Microsoft’s arsenal that the company is targeting to business and enterprise customers. Mixed reality — what most others call augmented reality — took center stage during CEO …
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Intel made waves last August with Project Alloy, a truly wireless VR headset with no cords, controllers or need for a separate PC. You’d just walk around a room naturally, and reach out with your hands to interact. But it seems like those waves didn’t travel very far, because Intel has decided to cancel the project. Originally, the company was …
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Opera is jumping onto the VR bandwagon. Opera Developer 49, the browser’s latest developer update, lets you watch all videos online using an embedded feature called the VR 360 player, the company said in a blogpost today. It works for VR headsets compatible with OpenVR, including the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, and will even work with 2D videos. More …
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Following on the heels of rumors about HTC’s possible acquisition by Google, the Taiwan Stock Exchange has said trading in shares of HTC will be halted on Sept. 21. The TWSE said in a statement: TWSE announced trading in the shares of HTC Corporation and the securities underlying the company will be halted starting from Sep 21 2017 pending the …
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