Shiftall is expanding its virtual reality options with four devices, including a new VR headset. The company unveiled the devices on Wednesday during CES 2022, and they’re all set to arrive throughout 2022. First up on the list of new devices is Shiftall’s MeganeX, an ultra-lightweight and high-resolution VR headset. The lighter weight should help with headset fatigue, which is … Continue reading
After introducing a six-person self-driving box and a frickin’ ridable drone concept last year, GM’s latest luxury self-driving EV idea is much more grounded. The InnerSpace concept looks like a futuristic car from the outside—but inside, there’s a two-seat loveseat surrounded by one of the widest screens we’ve ever seen. There’s no steering wheel or pedals, of course. Instead, there’s a built-in ottoman and a compartment for slippers and a blanket. Where GM’s going, you won’t need any sort of manual control.
Even stepping into the car seems like something from science fiction: the doors pop out, while the large windshield/sunroof rises up. As usual, concepts like the InnerSpace are a way for car designers to flex their muscles and imagine what future vehicles could actually be like. While it certainly seems out of reach for most people, perhaps Cadillac’s more affluent clientele would be intrigued by owning a personal spaceship. At least it’s better for the environment than full-sized luxury SUVs.
“Electrification and autonomous driving will fundamentally change the role of vehicles and the experiences customers have with them,” Bryan Nesbitt, GM’s executive director of Global Advanced Design, said in a statement. “We’re exploring where that will go with these innovative concepts, envisioning mobility as an ally of wellness, giving customers the ultimate luxury, more personal time rather than taking it.”
As someone who hates the act of driving, but lives in a place where I can’t avoid it, it’ll be interesting to see how car makers turn these self-driving concept vehicles into a reality. And maybe after getting these wild designs through their systems, they’ll show us more concepts for self-driving family EVs.
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A Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau Star Wars show isn’t a Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau Star Wars show without some deep cut Easter eggs. Episode two of The Book of Boba Fett, “The Tribes of Tatooine” (recapped here), was no exception, and while there were several really fun callbacks, our favorite is probably not the one…
Chicago Public School teachers attempting to teach students remotely on Wednesday discovered they’d been locked out of their digital classrooms, an apparent effort by city officials to prevent a return to remote education amid recent spikes in covid-19 cases among students and teachers.
A wildfire that wrought a path of destruction through communities outside of Boulder, Colorado, before New Years’ may have started on the property of a fundamentalist Christian sect, authorities said this week. The group has a long history in the Boulder area and runs several businesses—and has some disturbing…
There was a brief moment when it seemed like the most exciting laptop developments—folding screens and multiple displays—were hitting an insurmountable roadblock. Sure, various PC vendors showed off their versions of these devices, but that was before Microsoft canceled Windows 10X and component shortages strangled…
We may have just suffered through the year the billionaires traveled to space, but Asus wants you to know it made it there first, and it’s commemorating the achievement with a laptop that looks like it was designed for another planet.
HTC wants to make it easier for Vive virtual reality headsets to track the movement of a user’s hands and the tools they might be holding. The company’s solution, a blobby bracelet called the Vive Wrist Tracker, promises accurate data from the fingertips to the elbow, even when the headset can’t see the tracker or…
The caucus of nearly 100 House Democrats just gave a big boost to progressives’ efforts to add four seats to the high court.
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