Month: June 2016

OSVR wants its new headset to be a cheaper Oculus Rift

OSVR, the open source virtual reality initiative that launched early last year, is announcing a new headset it hopes can rival the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Called the HDK 2 (for “hacker development kit”), the headset looks very much like OSVR’s original kit. But where the previous-generation HDK used a single screen, its successor…

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The Forgotten Genius Nikola Tesla And His 6 Incredible Predictions

The world has been rife with the future predictions and innovations for quite some time. Be it the pioneering space surge, smartphones or AR (HoloLens), everything is coming to reality. Bill Gates predicted some technologies for the future decades as did Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. But, the future as we see now had been predicted…

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What Kind Of Future Does The Steering Wheel Have?

Google’s self-driving koala car doesn’t have one. Recent concepts from Mercedes-Benz and Volvo have ones that retract when they aren’t needed. But for now, nothing is more intrinsically tied to the act of driving than the steering wheel. Does it have a long-term future?That’s what gets pondered in this Automotive News story. For decades the…

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Everything to expect from Apple’s jam-packed WWDC 2016 keynote

Apple’s keynote to kick off this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference is going to be huge. So huge, in fact, that Apple already revealed some stuff early because Tim Cook and his Cupertino cronies won’t have time to cover everything during the jam-packed, two-hour event. Video While WWDC might seem like a bit of a snoozefest…

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TESLA PLAYS FRANKENSTEIN WITH ITS HYBRID ELECTRIC GARBAGE TRUCK

Tesla cofounder Ian Wright and his company Wrightspeed teamed up with commercial truck builder Mac Trucks to create a new hybrid electric trash hauler. They featured the Mack LR Model at the 2016 Waste Expo in Las Vegas, and was a move in the right direction for resource wasting refuse vehicles. This hybrid electric truck…

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Battlefield 1’s new gameplay trailer shows epic WW1 chaos

E3 2016 – DICE showed off a brand new explosive gameplay trailer for Battlefield 1 at E3, delivering even more authentic Great War carnage with aerial combat, insane firefights, and dynamic weather that ensures no battle is ever the same. Video The latest Battlefield 1 footage showcases the game’s incredibly dynamic warscapes, with ultra-destructible environments…

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