Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey recently spoke with Shacknews about the price of the upcoming Oculus Rift VR headset, his Tesla Model S car, and supporting Apple’s Mac platform. The interview took place in San Francisco during the Windows 10 Showcase event in late February. Oculus VR was there demonstrating Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition running…
Unnamed sources informed the Wall Street Journal last week that Intel is working on an augmented reality solution based on its RealSense 3D camera technology. The company will likely offer a headset design to other manufacturers rather than market a first-party model itself, similar to what Microsoft is doing with its upcoming HoloLens headset, according…
AMD’s Guennadi Riguer said in a recent interview that the company is pushing for 16K per eye at 144Hz and above for nearly latency-free virtual reality that’s served up in a wireless, small form factor package. He also added that AMD has a “robust” roadmap that will tackle a wide range of issues and bring…
On Friday, Amazon backtracked on its stance regarding encryption and Fire OS 5, stating in an email to the press that the company will re-enable the option for full disk encryption in an update this spring. The option for encryption was actually removed with the release of Fire OS 5 back in September 2015, but…
Last week brought reports that the second wave of Windows 10 “Redstone” wouldn’t arrive until spring 2017. Originally, “Redstone 2” aka RS2, was slated to arrive by the end of calendar 2016, packing features that didn’t make it into the first Redstone release slated to arrive this June. No reason was given for the delay….
Nvidia has updated its GeForce blog with news that the new GeForce Game Ready 364.47 WHQL drivers are now available to download. The big news here is that it’s the first set of WHQL drivers from the company that support the new Vulkan graphics API. Nvidia originally began supporting Vulkan by releasing fully conformant drivers…
Testing ground for VR Valve is getting ready to unveil a new virtual reality testing ground that will be familiar to anyone who’s played Portal or Portal 2. It’s called “The Lab” and it’s set in a pocket universe of Aperture Science, the scientific research corporation that appeared in both Portal titles. The Lab will…
Presidential hopeful told a lie Antivirus pioneer turned international fugitive and U.S. presidential hopeful John McAfee has been lying to the media, but he doesn’t think you should be mad at him over it. You see, he lied about how he would crack the now infamous iPhone model that belonged to one of the San…
Holding files hostage So called “ransomware” is increasing in popularity among cyber crooks looking to make a fast buck, so it’s not unusual to hear about a ransomware outbreak. However, there’s never been a successful ransomware campaign against Apple users running Mac OS X, until now. Some Apple users were the target of the “KeRanger”…
Tom Clancy’s The Division launches on PS4 on March 8th, 2016… that’s tomorrow! Set in a representation of New York ravaged by a biological attack, Ubisoft Massive’s third-person, cover-based shooter features a heavy emphasis on player progression, loot collection, and social interaction. Having played the recent open beta of The Division, we had lots of…