Now playing: Watch this: GoPro’s Omni rig tackles 360 VR head-on 2:41 GoPro wants to make professional 360 VR easy enough for anyone to give it a go. The Omni is a synchronized six camera array. Because it’s a GoPro device, naturally it uses six Hero4 Black cameras. For those willing to hand over $5,000 …
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Are you ready for some football in VR? Google and the NFL are. The two companies are teaming up to produce a nine part miniseries that will give fans an immersive view into what game day in the NFL is like. The episodes, shot using Google’s 360-degree camera and capture system, Jump, will focus on how players, coaches, executives, cheerleaders …
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The Google Play store is about to get an upgrade Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is looking to address developers’ concerns about the app store, including the difficulty of sifting through the sheer number of apps, Reuters reported Thursday. According to market researcher Statista, Google Play offers more than 2.4 million apps. Improvements could include using artificial intelligence to boost the …
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Eye-tracking might be the next great wave in virtual reality tech. If you’re dead-set on being an early adopter, intriguing startup Fove has finally made their worlds-first eye-tracking headset, the Fove 0, available for preorders starting today. Fove 0 promises eye-based controls for focusing on objects, controlling interfaces via eye movements and selectively rendering details more intricately depending on where …
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Remember Windows 10 for phones? Apparently, Alcatel does. The Chinese handset maker said on Tuesday a version of its Idol 4S phone equipped with Microsoft‘s operating system will head to T-Mobile on November 11. The phone will cost $470, and will include a pair of Idol 4S VR Googles. The company is also offering a 45-day trial of Hulu Plus …
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Microsoft and Apple faced off with different ideas of the creative computing future last week, and in many ways Microsoft looked like more of the innovator. The new wheel-like Surface Dial, a larger Surface Studio touchscreen computer, an improved Surface Book, and a bold attack strategy regarding affordable virtual-reality headsets as a patient build-up to a broader mixed reality future …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Once upon a time, and not too long ago, today’s deal would have cost you $59.99. While supplies last, however, Techrabbit has the …
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My mouth began watering even before I put on the VR headset. In the middle of the work day, Hormel’s Black Label Bacon virtual-reality experience was the closest thing I was going to get to the real thing. Available today, a trip to BlackLabelBacon.com will put you smack in the middle of four different bacon-centric VR worlds: Salty Sea, The …
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Facebook has a great costume idea for Halloween, as it makes moves to catch up with ephemeral messaging app Snapchat. In 2013, the social media giant failed to buy Snapchat for $3 billion. On Monday, a report said the company earlier this year tried to buy Snow, a similar social network in Asia, but couldn’t manage to snatch it up …
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Minecraft, Microsoft’s megahit game, will come to Apple TV by the end of the year. Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook announced the move Thursday at a press event to launch new Macs. He argued that apps are the future of TV, and the Apple TV systems will deliver that future. Minecraft puts players in a blocky virtual world where they …
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