Oculus Rift headset and Kinect 3D cameras team up for slick VR demo
We're all busy working on various projects, so news has been a little slow today. But here's something to keep you all occupied. A man named Oliver Kreylos has put together a nifty VR environment using an Oculus Rift headset coupled with a trio of Kinect 3D cameras. The cameras put him inside a virtual world in real time, and the experience is apparently quite immersive despite the low-quality graphics. Here's the requisite YouTube embed:
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ThinkPad 10 convertible combines Bay Trail SoC, HD display
While Microsoft is rumored to be prepping a 64-bit Surface tablet based on Atom silicon, Lenovo has already announced one. The new ThinkPad 10 is coming in June, and it will reportedly feature a quad-core Bay Trail chip paired with up to 4GB of RAM and the 64-bit version of Windows 8.1. The tablet is encased in an aluminum chassis, the screen is covered by a protective layer of Gorilla Glass, the battery promises 10 hours or run time, and the docking connector mates with multiple accessories. Sounds good, no?
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Surface Pro 3 might, uh, surface next week
There's a pretty good chance Microsoft will announce a Surface Mini tablet at its May 20 event next week. We already know all about that. According to the latest story by The Verge, though, we might also a successor to the Surface Pro at the event.
Where's the evidence? Well, a Microsoft support page about some sort of camera-related Windows update clearly mentions an upcoming device. It says, "An update is available ...
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Entire Radeon R9 lineup finally available at list prices
It's a little crazy that this is newsworthy, but AMD's full lineup of Radeon R9 graphics cards is finally available online at suggested e-tail prices. Various members of the family have been in short supply and selling at inflated prices since last year. Supply constraints and increased demand from cryptocurrency miners were apparently to blame, but the situation seems to have been resolved. AMD says the "madness" is over—and that the current, intended prices will remain stable moving forward.
At least right now, Newegg has plenty of Radeons selling at AMD's official launch ...
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