mfilion writes: Want to use the GNOME or KDE Linux desktops on your virtual-reality headset? A new open-source project aims to let you play games and use your Linux desktop with your VR head-mounted display. Xrdesktop is an open-source project “designed to let you work with traditional desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE, in VR,” reports ZDNet. “It does this…
Tag: 3D
New 3D Map of the Milky Way Shows Our Galaxy’s Heart Is Totally Twisted
Researchers have mapped the Milky Way in unprecedented detail using data from thousands of giant, pulsating stars. Source: https://www.livescience.com/66080-3d-mapping-milky-way-twisted.html
Chandrayaan-2 successfully completes 3rd orbit-raising maneuver
India’s 2nd moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, successfully carried out its 3rd orbit-raising maneuver on Monday. It will soon enter trans-lunar orbit, with the goal of landing on the moon on September 7. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/chandrayaan-2-isro-india-moon-mission…
Gaia starts mapping our Milky Way’s bar
“We knew the Milky Way had a bar, like other barred spiral galaxies. But we only had indirect indications from the motions of stars and gas. This is the first time we see the galactic bar in 3D space, based on geometric measurements of stellar distances.” Source: https://earthsky.org/space/gaia-starts-mapping-our-milky-ways-bar…
iOS and iPadOS 13 Beta 4 Signals Death of 3D Touch, Rise of Context Menu
Back in 2015, Apple introduced pressure-sensitive iPhone screens alongside 3D Touch as a potentially major hardware-software innovation, but barely supported the feature, leading to informed speculation that all of 2019’s iPhones would lose their pressure-sensing hardware. This week’s release of the fourth iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 developer betas appears to put the final nail in 3D Touch’s coffin, tightening up…
First E-Bikes, Then Flying Cars: a Do-Anything 3D Printing Tech
Tekla Perry shares an interesting story from the IEEE’s “View from the Valley” blog: Arevo was aiming to get into the aircraft parts business when it started developing software and hardware to print 3D structures using a composite containing continuous carbon fibers. Its technology lays out the lines of the material in ways to maximize strength and minimize the amount of…
NASA Funds Company To 3D-Print Spacecraft Parts in Orbit
An anonymous reader quotes Engadget: NASA is expanding its efforts to bring 3D printing to space. The agency has given Made In Space a $73.3 million contract to demonstrate the ability to 3D-print spacecraft parts in orbit using Archinaut One, a robotic manufacturing ship due to launch in 2022 or later. The vessel will fly aboard a Rocket Lab Electron rocket…
Tiny glasses help reveal how praying mantises can see in 3-D
Newfound nerve cells in praying mantises help detect different views that each of the insects’ eyes sees, a mismatch that creates depth perception. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tiny-glasses-praying-mantis-3d-vision-nerve-cells4…
Scientists 3D-Print Human Skin and Bone For Mars Astronauts
Scientists from the University Hospital of Dresden Technical University in Germany have successfully bio-printed skin and bone samples upside down to help determine if the method could be used in a low-gravity environment. CNET reports: The skin sample was printed using human blood plasma as a “bio ink.” The researchers added plant and algae-based materials to increase the viscosity so it…
Regal Cinemas Readying Unlimited Ticket Subscription Program
Regal Cinemas is prepping to launch a new unlimited movie ticket subscriptions service at the end of July in the U.S. Deadline has the details: There will be three tiers of pricing, which work out to $18, $21 and $24 per month, each granting access to unlimited tickets (really). While the monthly price of AMC Stubs A-List movie ticket subscription program…