During the Oculus Connect 4 keynote, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed a stand-alone VR headset called Oculus Go. It won’t require an inserted smartphone, nor will it need to be tethered to a parent PC.
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Star Wars VR is going to Disneyland. Well, sort of. It’s going to the area just outside Disneyland — Downtown Disney (in Anaheim) and Disney Springs (next to Disney World in Orlando). As we noted in August, LucasFilm has been working with VR startup The Void on a huge, room-wide virtual reality experience called “Secrets of the Empire” that would exist only at… Read More
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User feedback about Hulu’s new interface has not been entirely positive. In fact, a complaint about the new user interface is the most upvoted item on Hulu’s customer feedback forums, and is then followed by dozens of similar complaints which all say the same thing: it’s too hard to find shows, the interface is too difficult to navigate, the layout is confusing, and so on.… Read More
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I try not to quote directly from press releases as a rule, but sometimes a line like, “NutriBullet has taken the art of smoothie making to the next level” jumps out and you can’t really avoid it. For those who’ve been waiting for years to figure out precisely what the future of smoothie making looks like, the answer should be pretty clear: the Internet of Smoothies.… Read More
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Top notch TVs, game consoles, and laptops are all on sale this week!
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Raytheon’s latest, craziest invention could keep troops safe from drone attacks.
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There’s no foolproof system to keep hackers out. Instead, this increasingly popular security design keeps them in.
Source: Wired
Box has vast amounts of content in its stores, and as it begins to apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to make it easier to surface, it also wants to expose each piece of content and how it relates to other content and users. To help achieve that, the company announced the Box Graph today at BoxWorks. “The Box Graph enables customers to predictively recommend content… Read More
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles is changing its rules to allow companies to test autonomous vehicles without a driver behind the wheel — and to let the public use autonomous vehicles. The DMV released a revised version of its regulations and has started a 15-day public comment period, ending October 25, 2017. California law requires the DMV to work on regulations to cover… Read More
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With a bigger screen, audiobook support and (at last) water resistance, the new Kindle Oasis looks to be the king of ebook readers.
Source: CNET