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“Anyone looking to experience God in a brand new way will soon have his or her chance — virtually,” writes NBC News, reporting on “a new immersive faith-based virtual reality experience…part of a larger project created by L. Michelle Media called Mi… Continue reading Religion Meets Virtual Reality: Christianity-Themed VR Demo Scheduled For Easter
An anonymous reader shares a VentureBeat report:The cathode-ray-tube technology that powered the monitors for nearly every classic arcade game in the twentieth century is defunct. Sony, Samsung, and others have left it behind for skinnier and more lucr… Continue reading What the Death of CRT Display Means For Classic Arcade Machines
Apple has decided to adopt a flexible display for at least one model of the new iPhone, reports WSJ. From the report: People with direct knowledge of Apple’s production plans said the Cupertino, Calif., company has decided to go ahead with the technolo… Continue reading For This Year’s iPhone, Apple Is Ditching Lightning Connector and Home Button, But Embracing USB Type-C and Curved Display
New submitter cherishjoo shares a report written by David Katzmaier via CNET: When the first curved TVs appeared more than three years ago I asked whether they were a gimmick. As a TV reviewer I had to give the curve a fighting chance, however, so I to… Continue reading Slashdot Asks: Are Curved TVs Worth It?
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“In many cases, your old TV isn’t recycled at all and is instead abandoned in a warehouse somewhere, left for society to deal with sometime in the future,” reports Motherboard, describing the problem of old cathode-ray tele… Continue reading Some Recyclers Give Up On Recycling Old Monitors And TVs
Saturday Business Insider claimed that augmented reality company Magic Leap was “scrambling to finish a working prototype before an important board meeting next week,” publishing a photo described by their source as an early January prototype. An anony… Continue reading Magic Leap CEO Defends His AR Company After Leaked Photo
schwit1 quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: Ever since 2015 Consumer Electronics Show, quantum dots have been in a market struggle to displace light-emitting diodes (LEDs) as a backlight source for liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Now an advance by a te… Continue reading Nanorods Emit and Detect Light, Could Lead To Displays That Communicate Via Li-Fi
neutrino38 writes: The French presidential election is approaching fast. One of the candidates, Jean-Luc Melanchon, used a hologram to hold two public meetings at once. With a political program that is mostly socialist and very left leaning, some peopl… Continue reading French Politician Uses Hologram To Hold Meetings In Two Cities At the Same Time
The LG UltraFine 5K Display was designed in part by Apple to work with the New MacBook Pro and as a replacement for the Thunderbolt Display, which was discontinued late last year. According to 9to5Mac, the display apparently wasn’t designed to work nex… Continue reading LG’s UltraFine 5K Display Becomes Useless When It’s Within Two Meters of a Router
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After four years of development, Sansar, the new virtual reality world from Second Life’s creators will arrive later this year on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive headsets. “It is trying to solve some of the big problems that plague… Continue reading ‘Second Life’ Creators Develop A VR Social World Named ‘Sansar’