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While virtual reality technology has been around for a while now, it’s safe to say that things really started to catch on with the development and the release of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. This is probably thanks to developers who have been making efforts to port games onto the device, thus giving older games a new lease on life in a more immersive environment.

Now the Oculus Rift isn’t exactly available for mass consumption yet but there are units being sold to those looking to help develop games for it and experiment, but exactly how many of such units have been sold so far? Well according to Oculus VR, it seems that they have managed to sell around 85,000 Oculus Rift units to date, which we have to say is mighty impressive.

This is according to the company who revealed to TechCrunch that they managed to sell 25,000 units of the second-gen Oculus Rift kit which was revealed at CES 2014 and went on sale on the 19th of March. This is then combined with sales of the first-gen kit which has managed about 60,000 units until the announcement of the second-gen kit.

Given that these units are aimed at developers and not end-users, we have to say that this is setting a pretty good precedent, and might even explain why Facebook was so interested in the company and offered to acquire the company for a whopping $2 billion. The move was not well-received by many who voiced their displeasure at the acquisition, but hopefully with Facebook’s backing and resources, the development of the device and its technology will move at a faster pace.

80,000 Oculus Rift Devices Have Been Sold to Date , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Gadgets, Oculus Rift, virtual reality, Wearable Tech,

Heartbleed is causing heartache on hundreds of servers all over the internet, but security researchers have also warned that the bug could allow direct hacks of Android, too. Here’s how to check if your device is at risk.

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Tablets and other touchscreens will keep your kids quiet. But will they also melt their brains?

It seems that despite EA and DICE’s best efforts to squash as many Battlefield 4 bugs as possible, they just keep popping up, and the latest one has been discovered which gamers are referring to it as the death shield bug.

Basically for those who haven’t played Battlefield 4, when you are killed in the game, there’s a small window of time in which your team mates can come and revive you, and during this period you would be protected by an invisible shield, temporarily.

However this bug seems to extend that shield and basically the shield is bigger than expected meaning that players standing behind the recently revived player are protected by the shield as well. In fact this could be used as a tactic where players could let their team mate die, revive them, and stand behind them to absorb attacks and launch their own attacks on the enemy.

According to DICE’s QA lead, Jaqub Ajmal, the bug is currently being looked at although there is no mention as to when the bug could be fixed. However to EA and DICE’s credit, after all the flack they have received over the Battlefield 4 bugs, they have been hard at work trying to patch things up as quickly as possible, so hopefully this bug will be fixed ASAP.

In the meantime if you’re wondering how this bug works and how it affects the game, check out the video below to see it in action.

Battlefield 4 “Death Shield” Bug Discovered , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Gaming, battlefield 4,

We have heard the rumors that Samsung could be working on a Google Glass rival, although as it stands we have only heard the rumors and seen patents that points to such a device being a possibility. Now thanks to a newly discovered patent, another possible design of Samsung’s Glass rival has been sighted.

In this particular patent, it describes an earpiece that comes with an integrated heads up display, with the display resembling what we’ve seen in Google Glass. Not only does this setup provide the wearer with a display, but it could also provide audio feedback, such as notifications, music, movies, and video playback. (more…)

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