An anonymous reader shares a report: In the world of mixed reality hardware and software, few people have the expert-level credibility of Oculus CTO John Carmack, whose pioneering 3D work at id Software broke new ground on personal computers years before he turned his attention to bringing VR hardware to life. While Oculus’ owner, Facebook, recently suggested that the future of…
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Ask Slashdot: Who Are the ‘Steve Wozniaks’ of the 21st Century?
dryriver writes: There are some computer engineers — working in software or hardware, or both — who were true pioneers. Steve Wozniak needs no introduction. Neither do Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace or Charles Babbage. Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce started Intel decades ago. John Carmack of Doom is a legend in realtime 3D graphics coding. Aleksey Pajitnov created Tetris. Akihiro Yokoi…
Amazon Just Brought Prime Video To VR Headsets
An anonymous reader quotes Variety:
Oculus VR headset users just got one more video service to watch in their virtual living rooms: Amazon’s Prime Video service went live on Oculus Go, Quest and Samsung Gear VR headsets with a dedicated Prime Video VR app Wednesday. In addition to access to the entire Prime Video catalog, Prime Video VR will also feature select…
In a virtual world, the sky is no longer the limit
Kayleigh Oliver began her career as one of just six women in a room full of more than 100 computing students. 10 years later, she works as a QA and Release Manager at Immerse, a virtual reality training software company. Kayleigh also runs her own app development business in her spare time. We spoke to […]
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Facebook is Working on a Voice Assistant To Rival Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri, Report Says
Facebook is working on a voice assistant to rival the likes of Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and the Google Assistant, CNBC reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. From the report: The tech company has been working on this new initiative since early 2018. The effort is coming out of the company’s augmented reality and virtual reality group, a division…
Facebook Accidentally Shipped VR Devices With Secret Messages Saying ‘Big Brother Is Watching’
Tens of thousands of touch controllers shipped with labels like ‘Big Brother Is Watching,’ and ‘The Masons Were Here.’ Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bj98jd/facebook-accidentally-shipped-vr-devices-with-secret-messages-saying-big-brother-is-watching…
Our First Impressions of Vader Immortal, the New Star Wars Story Told in VR—Plus the Trailer!
Darth Vader needs your help. But are you worthy? That’s the set up for Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series—Episode I, a new VR experience developed by ILMxLab for Oculus platforms telling a canon story set between Episodes III and IV. Read more… Source: https://io9.gizmodo.com/our-first-impressions-of-vader-immortal-the-new-star-w-1833996216