Fitness and VR may seem like an odd mix, but VR games can definitely motivate a fitness routine if you can avoid getting nauseous. Virzoom made a fitness bike for hard-wired VR systems like the PlayStation VR and HTC Vive last year, but it was expensive, and required placement in front of your VR PC/console. …
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It’s been a great couple of years for PC gaming. Almost every noteworthy game is available on PCs at the same time as on living room consoles, and usually with better graphics options; new GPU and CPU hardware has made gaming desktops and laptops both more powerful and less expensive; and higher-res screens mean you can play at 4K and …
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A new version of Mozilla‘s Firefox browser catches up partway to Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Microsoft Edge when it comes to speed and stability. It’s through a technology called Electrolysis, which Mozilla started working on years ago but mostly put on hold in 2011 because of technical difficulties. Electrolysis splits different computing tasks into different processes using separate memory …
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Now playing: Watch this: Feel the fear when real objects meld with VR 1:31 Enlarge Image The VR arcade could be your next hangout spot. IMAX Virtual reality has turned me into a globe-trotting adventurer. I’ve scuba-dived massive undersea shipwrecks, coming face-to-face with a blue whale. I’ve fought off hordes of oncoming zombies with nothing but a shotgun, an ax …
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With the Surface Laptop, Microsoft is trying to create the ultimate touchscreen-enabled notebook computer. We run through CNET’s review of the new device, focusing on its unique (and potentially problematic) fabric covering, and we touch on some alternative Windows laptops you may want to consider. Also on the show: the experience of VR arcades, and Zelle, a new peer-to-peer payments …
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Fallout 4 is finally coming to virtual reality. After teasing that its hybrid first-person shooter/role-playing game would come to VR last year, Bethesda confirmed on Sunday that the game would be available for the HTC Vive headset in October. The company dropped a trailer, showing off some of the truly first-person perspective a player can expect when wearing the Vive. …
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You can have your 3D Paint and VR capability. My favorite feature of Windows 10 Creators Update is the ability to stop Windows from forcing updates on me at the most inconvenient of times. Creators Update gives you much more control over how and when system updates occur. Let’s take a look at how to set up Windows 10 so …
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High-end virtual reality is making its way to Macs. HTC’s virtual reality headset, Vive, will be compatible with Apple’s latest operating system, High Sierra, the Taiwanese company said Monday in a blog post. This comes in conjunction with Apple’s announcement Monday that it’s working with video game maker Valve’s SteamVR platform to make it compatible with High Sierra. “Through a newly …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. On Monday, Apple previewed the next version of its software that powers your Mac as part of WWDC, its annual developer conference. Many features include behind-the-scene updates to make your Mac and its apps faster, more secure and more enjoyable. Here are seven …
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President Donald Trump has illegally blocked a handful of Twitter users for criticizing or mocking him on the social network, and they want their access restored, lawyers for the users say. The lawyers, in a letter sent to Trump on Tuesday, argue that the US president’s account is a “public forum” from which the government is constitutionally barred from excluding …
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