Here’s an interesting video…
Disclamer: Don’t do this in your Google Chrome browser, at least as of now it’ll crash that browser.
Interestingly Firefox just gives an ‘Server not found’ error, Edge… well it doesn’t do anything, Internet explorer brings up an error saying that it cannot find that address. I don’t have Opera, so I don’t know what it does. I wonder how long it’ll be before the chrome team fixes that bug.
I must admit, I’ve thought about this with how my Windows 7/8.1 machines have been nagging me to upgrade… I mean really, 2-3 times per day on each computer?
Courtesy of /u/Kubrick_Fan on Reddit
Click here to view the Reddit thread.
The fine folks that are making the Dig Build Live have made a … interesting… 360 video. As with last time, i’ll probably work best in Google Chrome, though it appears that Firefox has added 360 video support. Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge (For those Windows 10 users out there…) do not support 360 videos at this time.
You should also be able to view it on your smartphone, using the Google Chrome browser, the Youtube App, or the Google Cardboard App.
Here’s an interesting video that shows off the Oculus Rift CV1 from E3 – I really wish that I could have gone there this year.
Go to 17:10 to see the actual hands-on demo. Yes this video is 40 minutes long.
Sadly I haven’t gotten to do a hands-on with the Oculus Rift CV1, though I do love using my DK2. Games are much more immersive when played in VR, It actually can be difficult for me to want to go back to playing games on a standard monitor again. I am really looking forward to gettting the CV1, as well as the HTC Vive headset when that comes out.
Earlier today, there Microsoft had a presentation about Minecraft on their Hololens headset…
I have to wonder how close to reality that presentation is, I heard that Microsoft said that some truly epic things could be done with the Kinect, but none of that really happened, at least from what I’ve heard. They want to make Windows 10 THE OS for VR and AR, seeing that they have a partnership with Oculus/Facebook, and evidently Valve/HTC on their Vive headset, they will probably be quite successful at doing that.
I’m happy to see that the Oculus Rift will soon be released to the general public, sadly they put Mac and Linux support ‘on hold’, which means that Windows will be a requirement to use the Rift. From some of the articles that I’ve been reading, thanks to a partnership with Microsoft (Which is probably the primary reason that Mac/Linux support was put on hold) the Oculus will be natively supported on Windows 10, and it’ll be possible to play XBox games on it.
In the end, I’ve become partial to the HTC Vive headset, it will have similar specs to the Oculus, but is being made with a partnership between HTC and Valve. I think that Valve will want the Vive to work on their Steam Machines, which hopefully will mean Linux support.
All I can say is wow…
ORLANDO, Fla. — The employees who kept the data systems humming in the vast Walt Disney fantasy fief did not suspect trouble when they were suddenly summoned to meetings with their boss.While families rode the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and searched for Nemo on clamobiles in the theme parks, these workers monitored computers in industrial buildings nearby, making sure millions of Walt Disney World ticket sales, store purchases and hotel reservations went through without a hitch. Some were performing so well that they thought they had been called in for bonuses.
Source: Pink Slips at Disney. But First, Training Foreign Replacements. – NYTimes.com
It’s sad to see how major corporations seem to like to screw over their IT Departments. All to save a bit of money.
Not much to say, but I’m working on making new content for the site again.
It’s 11/11/11 today! isn’t that neat?
It’s a cool day for us geeks, as days where the same number is repeated many times are rare, The last one for quite a long time will be 12/12/12 at 12:12 AM and PM, as we only have twelve months in a year and twenty four hours in a day… I’ll try to avoid missing that one 🙂
Also apparently some groups believe that this date may have something to do with the apoclypse, or some metaphysics stuff… But I just think that it’s a neat date, being able to say that it’s 11/11/11! In the end it’s just our clocks moving forward, and seeing the changes that are happening to the world.
The world lost a great man yesterday… Steve Jobs, one of the co-founders of Apple, has died.
I may not have used many products made by his company, but I still do have to say that he was one of the greatest minds of his time, without him, I don’t know where computers would be today… though they probably wouldn’t be quite as far along as they are now.
