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Apple has confirmed it did indeed purchase virtual reality company NextVR, which specializes in recording live events like concerts and sports matches to be experienced in VR, according to Bloomberg. Photo: NextVR. The company’s confirmation arrives after 9to5Mac first reported the acquisition in early April.
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A screenshot from Gran Turismo Sport. The Olympics is currently hosting its first-ever virtualsporting event series, the Olympic Virtual Series , where competitors can play in virtual versions of five different physical sports: motorsport, cycling, baseball, sailing, and rowing. Image: Sony.
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I’ve included an Amazon link here just to give you a starting point, but I usually pick them up at my local sporting goods store. I also sometimes need to make a trip to the local hardware store to get a couple of plastic washers to put on either side of the wheel, to keep it centered on the axle properly.
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With guidance from Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for the Orion spacecraft, Amazon tweaked the Echo hardware to be more resilient to radiation in the space environment, and tweaked the Alexa software to be more attuned to voice commands in a capsule that can get noisier than your typical living room. Amazon Alexa Graphic).
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It doesn’t offer lidar or virtual boundaries, but it’s a great budget bot that can handle the basics. Regardless of which configuration you choose, all sport several features gamers will love, including a 120Hz refresh rate, Dolby Vision HDR compatibility, and support for HDMI 2.1. Read our full review. Vjeran Pavic / The Verge.
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I profiled a young streetwise Carthy who graduated from using a pair of common scissors to steal expensive sports cars off the streets of Prague to using a common laptop to pop open the doors. So we'll have a virtual CTF. The remote communication between a key fob and a car is encoded over the air. Vamosi: Ah, there’s that.
In a moment I’ll introduce you to the person who has done this, and given his experience with live broadcasts of CTFs, is working now to make live CTFs a regular e-sport. These other like virtual machines, have separate analysis that you would do for them and there's actually dedicated tools for each of those, right?
The hardware dial to rotate your array of virtual monitors across that wall of screen looks awesome, too, reducing the need to rely on special windowing software to get work done. Garmin’s Vivomove Sport looks good and doesn’t cost a fortune. Best Wearable: Garmin Vivomove Sport. Sean Hollister, tech reports editor.
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Vamosi: DEFCON wasn't the first conference to host lockpicking as we're about to hear the Dutch were way ahead of other countries in providing lockpicking as a sport or hackers. They're an international organization that provides membership for those wanting to pick locks for sport. There's also so many virtual conferences.
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Vamosi: For most of my career I have speculated when and where there would be an escalation of physical war into the virtual world. We had individuals who were wealthy, perhaps you’ve seen the images of early 2000s Russian criminals with the bling bling, the gold teeth, and the fancy sports cars on Facebook. A cyberwar.
And so I met him and I said, “Look, I want to start a T-shirt business, direct-to-consumer, totally virtual. I don’t know this for sure, but I suspect that some major sporting goods companies, in the board meetings, are talking about Gymshark and the challenge they’re bringing. I need it to run concurrently while I’m in class.”
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