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Gadget Ogling: Amazon on Fire, Virtual Reality, True Nature and Energy Relief
2014-09-20 15:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Apple might be the flavor of the minute as new iPhones hit stores, but Amazon isn't ready to let its rival hog all the limelight. Without a flashy presentation, it unveiled a half-dozen new Fire tablets and Kindle e-readers. There's a 6-inch Fire HD tablet priced at $99 and a 7-inch version for $139. The Fire tablets are reliably solid machines, and those are fantastically enticing prices.
The Daily Startup: AltspaceVR Rides Virtual Reality Wave
2014-09-12 17:16:12| Footwear - Topix.net
In another sign virtual reality is maturing as a sector, AltspaceVR has raised $5.2 million from investors to build a social platform for the emerging technology, Lizette Chapman reports for Dow Jones VentureWire. Following recent billion-dollar virtual reality initiatives by behemoths including Facebook and Sony Computer Entertainment , private investors have backed a string of hardware startups in the sector, but AltspaceVR is among the first major VR-software companies to garner venture backing.
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Will Samsungs Gear VR trigger the virtual reality revolution before Oculus Rift?
2014-09-04 20:45:57| Extremetech
Out of all the products that Samsung unveiled yesterday, it was the Gear VR -- not the Note 4 or Note Edge -- that intrigued me the most. At first I was a little bit skeptical, but as I started to interpret some hands-on impressions, and learn about Oculus VR's extensive involvement with the Gear VR, the tingling started to swell. Don't forget that Samsung sold over 10 million Note 3 phablets, and will probably sell even more of the Note 4. If the Gear VR is priced appropriately, we are probably looking at the first real consumer-grade, mass-market virtual reality device.
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Houston tech firm uses virtual reality to train the oil field
2014-06-26 02:14:26| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
In 2010, the average gamer spent eight hours a week playing video games, and that number has likely increased since then.
Inside Fords virtual reality prototyping lab: Why make full-size clay cars when VR will do?
2014-06-25 12:59:08| Extremetech
3D vizualization software cuts costly physical mockups, clay models. Yesterday's design changes show up in today's 3D model.
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