Month: December 2020

12 maps, five game modes, zero places to hide. Oculus today unveiled a brand new trailer for Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond showcasing the upcoming WWII shooter’s impressive lineup of multiplayer offerings, including—but not limited to—several immersive game modes, a diverse range of unique PvP environments, an arsenal of finely-tuned weaponry, and a dozen
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Whether you’re weighed down by a deluge of holiday shopping, bitter with nagging in-laws, or praying for that long-off Christmas vacation to start, one of the best ways to pump up your holiday cheer this year is with some classic Christmas cinema. Fortunately, your Netflix subscription is packed with enough tinsel and gingerbread to keep
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Photo: AMY OSBORNE / Contributor (Getty Images) Google announced in a Wednesday email that it plans to shut down its 3D-object creation and library platform, Poly, next year, making it the latest of the company’s AR/VR projects to fall into obsolescence. Advertisement Initially conceptualized as a 3D creation tool and library optimized for virtual reality,
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Fortnite‘s control scheme is a bit more complicated than other battle royale games. On top of the basic controls for managing your inventory and pulling off headshots, you’re expected to master a complex building system. At times, the system can be clunky — switching between the various materials and structures isn’t easy for beginners —
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A pre-lit Christmas tree saves a whole lot of time when it comes to setup, and it allows you to get straight to the decorations (they’re also more resilient around pets and kids). Today’s LED light options are more durable than ever, and the latest trees even allow for smarter operation through mobile apps and
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An affordable tabletop 3D display designed for people and characters. Holographic light field display experts Looking Glass Factory today unveiled the Looking Glass Portrait, the companies first “portrait-orientated” 3D display designed specifically for people and characters. Unlike past Looking Glass devices, such as the Looking Glass 15.6 and Looking Glass 8K, the Looking Glass Portrait
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Google has instructed users to download their personal libraries before June 30, 2021. VR content creators woke up today with a shocking email from Google stating that the company would be shutting down their 3D model sharing platform Google Poly. For VR creators like Rosie Summers, Poly has been instrumental in her amazing Tilt Brush
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Photo: Britta Pedersen (Getty Images) “Something extremely bogus is going on,” Elon Musk tweeted on Nov. 13. It’s been a busy month, and you could be forgiven if you forgot about the Tesla founder’s confusing tweet in which he said that his rapid antigen test had come back positive and negative. It appeared that Musk
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Purchasing a MacBook can take a chunk out of your wallet, but it’s more than a purchase, it’s an investment — and protection is essential. How would you feel if your MacBook bit the dust because you didn’t purchase the protection? To help you in this endeavor, we have done the research, compiled a list,
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Since the pandemic began, jump-roping has become “a TikTok craze,” according to Nick Woodard, a 14-time world-champion jump-roper. As any parent overseeing home-school knows: Zoom PE is hardly a hard-driving Peloton class. It’s more like your kid lying on the floor of the living room doing halfhearted leg-lifts by the light of her laptop. Many
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday may be over, but the year’s biggest sales continue through Cyber Week. We found continuing office chair Cyber Week deals from Walmart, Amazon, Best Buy, and other online retailers. Here, we’ve rounded up all the very best remaining Cyber Week office chair deals so you don’t have to search far
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Illustration: Olivier Douliery (Getty Images) After Microsoft caused an uproar with its very weird, very invasive “Productivity Score” tool, which essentially spied on Microsoft 365 users’ activity and reported it back to their employers, the company has walked back the creepiest part of that feature. Advertisement The Productivity Score is a new tool turned on
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Did you know you can play games on your iPhone using iMessage? Well, you do now because Apple’s inter-device messaging platform lets you play games with friends on your iPhone or your iPad. As long as a contact of yours has an iPhone or iPad, and so long as they have iMessage enabled, you’ll be
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Put simply, Pistol Whip 2089 is an over-the-top dystopian joyride unlike anything available on VR headsets. Today marks the launch of Pistol Whip’s first-ever cinematic campaign, “2089.” Available on SteamVR and Oculus headsets as a free update to existing owners, 2089 places you in the role John Asimov, who—after tracking a destress beacon to an
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Cheaper, sleeker, deeper mixed reality. Earlier this morning, VR hardware manufacturer Varjo revealed the latest additions to its lineup of human-eye resolution mixed reality headsets, the Varjo XR-3 and Varjo VR-3. Designed for use by a wide rand of industry professionals, from pilots and engineers to surgeons and researchers, these professional-grade headsets feature a variety
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The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein was found in neuron cells, suggesting that neurons associated with smell may be infected. An illustration of the novel SARS-CoV2 virus. Image: Nexu Science Communication/Trinity College The novel coronavirus may enter the brain of people through the nose, according to a study published on Monday (November 30) that may help explain
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It’s easy to clear your cache on an iPhone. If you need to free up memory or want to give your iPhone a little speed boost, clearing your cache is a great and effortless way of doing this. Basically, the cache is your iPhone’s store of memory for specific apps, including the Safari browser and
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