Month: June 2022
The iPhone 14 might not be the most exciting smartphone launch this year
Audio player loading… You might have thought that the iPhone 14 is the biggest smartphone launch coming this year – after all, the last few months of each year are usually dominated by Apple and its newest line of devices – but you might be wrong. It sounds like the…
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Frances Haugen wants to train lawyers to fight Facebook
Frances Haugen, the whistleblower who released a trove of internal documents and data from Facebook and testified in front of lawmakers about the social network’s behavior, is now looking to start a non-profit focused on holding companies like Meta accountable, according to a report from Politico. The organization, which Haugen…
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Meta’s latest VR headset prototypes could help it pass the ‘Visual Turing test’
Meta wants to make it clear it’s not giving up on high-end VR experiences yet. So, in a rare move, the company is spilling the beans on several VR headset prototypes at once. The goal, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is to eventually craft something that could pass the “visual…
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Meta’s latest VR headset prototypes will help it pass the ‘Visual Turing test’
Meta wants to make it clear it’s not giving up on high-end VR experiences yet. So, in a rare move, the company is spilling the beans on several VR headset prototypes at once. The goal, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is to eventually craft something that could pass the “visual…
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Summer Game Fest: Where did all the AAA games go?
It’s a weird year for video games. We’re 19 months into a fresh console cycle and support for the PS4 and Xbox One is finally tapering off as developers shift focus to the PS5, Xbox Series X and PC cloud gaming platforms. The pandemic slowed or paused development on a…
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Mark Zuckerberg has so many VR headset prototypes to show us
Meta’s Reality Labs division has revealed new prototypes in its roadmap toward lightweight, hyper-realistic virtual reality graphics. The breakthroughs remain far from consumer-ready, but the designs — codenamed Butterscotch, Starburst, Holocake 2, and Mirror Lake — could add up to a slender, brightly lit headset that supports finer detail than…
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