Apr 13
According to NASA, not only is time travel possible, but we are each taking part in time travel every single day of our lives — from a certain perspective.
Apr 13
Scientists have discovered some unexpected changes in temperature, both up and down, in Neptune, our Solar System’s most distant proper planet.
Apr 13
A comet with a nucleus larger than Rhode Island has been on a journey toward the Sun for more than a million years. In February, researchers found that the comet is 85 miles wide, and new observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope now confirm that this is in indeed the largest comet nucleus ever observed,…
Apr 13
This Controller Lets You Feel VR Objects Slip Between Your Fingers, and the Possibilities Are Endless
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The last big hurdle to making virtual worlds (nope, not going to call it the other thing) a truly realistic experience is providing tangible feedback to other senses too, like touch. There’s been considerable research into creating VR controllers that let users touch and feel virtual objects as if they were real, but…
Apr 13
Soccer fans are cheering after FIFA, the international governing body for the pro sport, launched its own streaming service for live games, match replays and original documentaries on Tuesday. FIFA+ is available for free now on the web and mobile devices, but it’s still not clear whether it will eventually charge for…
Apr 13
Two tornadoes touched down in Bell County, Texas Monday evening, injuring 23 people and hospitalizing 12, one with critical injuries. The more damaging of the tornadoes was on the ground for an eye-popping seven miles, striking Salado, Texas, a town about midway between Austin and Waco on Interstate 35.
Apr 13
In episode three of Moon Knight, directed by Mohamed Diab, former partners and lovers reunite to stop Harrow (Ethan Hawke) from getting to Ammit’s tomb. Turns out working together is trickier for them with Marc (Oscar Isaac) needing to learn how to work with Steven (also Oscar Isaac) and Khonshu (F. Murray Abraham) in…
Apr 13
Valve has repeatedly insisted that the Steam Deck doesn’t come with external GPU support, shooting down gamer’s hopes of connecting an RTX 3090 and cranking the graphics settings to Ultra. At the same time, Valve keeps emphasizing how the Steam Deck is an open platform, a device that can be modified to fit a user’s…
Apr 13
The 67-year-old comic’s family announced his death on Tuesday.
Apr 13
Don’t expect to make a fortune from digital items sold in Meta’s virtual world. Meta has confirmed to CNBC that it will take a total 47.5 percent cut from digital asset sales in Horizon Worlds, including 30 percent through the Meta Quest Store and 17.5 percent through Horizon Worlds itself. Creators may need to charge a premium to ensure healthy income for themselves, then.
In a statement to The Verge, Meta’s Horizon VP Vivek Sharma argued the company’s cut was a “pretty competitive rate.” However, that’s not necessarily true for some content. CNBC pointed out that the NFT marketplace OpenSea takes just a 2.5 percent share of transactions. There’s also a degree of irony when Meta blasted Apple’s 30 percent slice of in-app purchases and said it would change subscriptions to help creators keep more revenue.
Meta is promising “goal-oriented” bonuses to virtual developers whose worlds are particularly active. Nonetheless, the rate isn’t exactly pleasing to digital product makers. It’s steeper than at many other online services, and may make it difficult for some creators to operate in Horizon Worlds when it might be practical elsewhere.
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