Valve VR engineer moves on to Oculus
We've known for some time that Valve is working on its own virtual-reality headset. Valve has also made no secret of its collaboration with Oculus. Still, I was surprised to find out this afternoon that one of Valve's VR guys has moved on to Oculus.
The defector is Atman Binstock, whom Oculus describes as "one of the lead engineers and driving forces behind Valve’s VR project." Binstock apparently put together the "VR room" demo Valve showed at its ...
Read more...
Read More ...
Linux gathers steam with CryEngine port, Valve's DX-to-GL translator
In
the run-up to next week's Game Developers' Conference, we've gotten a
couple of reminders that the PC gaming landscape may be altered
radically in the coming months and years. Today, Crytek announced that
its cutting-edge CryEngine, er, game engine is ready to demo on Linux:This is a major development in Valve's quest to bolster Linux as an alternative PC gaming platform as part of the SteamOS. CryEngine may be the most graphically capable of the current-gen game engines. Many of the other major engines have already made the move to Linux ...
Read more...
Read More ...
Tuesday Shortbread
Eight is Enough
- WCCFtech: Intel Haswell-E X99 chipset "Wellsburg" details leaked
- AnandTech reports Intel Xeon to get Crystal Well: E3-1284L v3
- DigiTimes: TSMC 20nm wafer production delayed
temporarily, but will not affect shipments
- DigiTimes: ARM to see pricing advantages against Intel in micro-server industry
- C|Net: Google cited as bothered by Android-Windows hybrid
- ZDNet: Five reasons Microsoft could become a top Android smartphone company
- Snowden: Proposed NSA reforms vindicate my data leaks - Reuters
- International Business Times: Bitcoin miner earning $8 million a month
Read More ...
Titanfall PC includes 35GB of uncompressed audio
When word got out that Titanfall
would weigh in at 48GB on the PC, I kind of assumed that requirement
had to do with super-high-res textures or the like. Well, that's not the
case. According to Eurogamer, the game actually owes most of its massive footprint not to high-res textures, but to uncompressed audio.To be precise, the PC version of Titanfall reportedly ...
Read more...
Read More ...
New Microsoft brass 'extremely committed' to the Xbox
Back in November, when speculation about Microsoft's CEO pick was at fever pitch, Bloomberg posted a story about one of the candidates. Stephen Elop, the story said, would consider selling the Xbox business if he deemed it non-critical to Microsoft's strategy.
Elop wound up not getting the CEO job. That honor went to Satya Nadella. However, as TechCrunch reported last month, Elop will soon become head ...
Read more...
Read More ...
Surface Power Cover extends run times with second battery
Considering the apparent popularity of Asus convertibles, I'm surprised it's taken so long for Microsoft to do this. Behold the new Surface Power Cover, which includes an auxiliary battery and is now available for pre-order on the Microsoft Store. The asking price is $199.99, and shipments kick off on March 19.
...Read more...
Read More ...
Available Tags:Valve , Linux , steam , Microsoft , Xbox ,
No comments:
Post a Comment