Short Daily Gadget & Tech News - 20210318
Facebook is developing a special wristband that can be used to operate augmented reality glasses. They wrote this in a blog post today. Such glasses would be released later this year. With the new wristband, the finger movements of the wearer are recognized as well as the signals from the nerves that provide the complex hand and finger movements.
NVIDIA
People planning to subscribe to the game streaming service "GeForce NOW" will have to dig deeper into the money pouch from now on. The existing subscription 'Founder' will be replaced by the newer version 'Priority' and will now cost EUR 9.99 instead of the previous price of EUR 5.49. For existing subscribers, nothing will change for the time being.
Sony
Last month, Sony announced that they were working on new PlayStation VR glasses for the PlayStation 5. Now today they have revealed in a blog what these improved controllers will look like. The new headset works with only one cable.
Wallstreetbets / Reddit / GameStop
Wallstreetbets is a Reddit sub-forum that gained notoriety after some members bought shares in the game retailer "GameStop". Due to their action, the share price of the company rose enormously and those members were able to make a substantial profit. In the past few days, the profit was 333,000 dollars (279,000 euros). They have now donated this amount to the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, writes CNN.
(source:nu.nl)
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It was, Suzay, I just allowed myself to get busy, is all! I hope you are doing well too, my friend!
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Don't we have days where we can't even deal with reality, let alone virtual reality?
Sounds like the companies are collecting free feed back on their product, and what if that were in virtual time? Ooo! Very creepy. and you never know who is collecting what on whom. Do you?
Suzay