Banished To Work In The Metaverse For A Week
There are a sixteen researchers who recently wrapped up a virtual work week in the Metaverse, spending eight hours a day for five days with a Meta Quest 2 headset...
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Podcast #651 – Intel Alder Lake 12900k Falcon Northwest Tested, AMD 6000 Rumors, DDR5 FAQ + MORE!
Alder Lake is here and it's good. Good and hot sometimes. We gave the full once over on the Falcon Northwest test system with an RTX 3090 and a new Alder Lake…
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The Oculus Quest Takes Some Meta-mucil To Help Eliminate Mandatory Facebook Login
There seems to be one small benefit to Facebook trying to hide behind a new name, which is that some time in the relatively near future you may not need a personal…
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Sure Your Facebook Feed Broke, But What About Oculus Quest Fans?
The transformation from successful KickStarter program to Facebook appendage may have garnered the creators a lot of money but it certainly hasn't made them popular. The decision seems to have only exacerbated…
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Oculus Puts A Price On Privacy With The Quest 2
If you want to keep Facebook out of your Oculus, you can now do that for a price. There is a new business version of the Oculus Quest 2 with...
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Deleted Facebook? Kiss Your Oculus Games Goodbye
It took a mere two months for Facebook to start enforcing the changes they announced back in August, and fully assimilate all of your Oculus assets into their social disease. ...
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FaceBook OverSharing Leads To An Oculus Quest 2 Leak
Ah Oculus, once a groundbreaking Kickstarter to bring VR to the masses but quickly becoming something completely different after Zuckerberg came calling with a fat pocketbook. Since then it has only become…
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Please Log In To FaceBook To Access Your Oculus Rift
In a move which came as a surprise to absolutely no one who was paying attention, you now have a limited time to link your Oculus account to your Facebook account. If…
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The Big Cloud Providers Try To Shore Up Internet Routing Security
The big names in Cloud services including, but not limited to, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Akamai, and Netflix have announced a project to tame the current insecure mess which is routing on…
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Whatsapp Doc?
If you happen to be a Whatsapp user, you should stop chatting for a moment and update your client as there is a new attack which bears a remarkable resemblance to
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May Your Quest to Obtain the New Oculus Be Successful
Oculus, and Facebook of course, have launched a competitor to the Valve Index VR headset which Jim wrote about earlier. The Oculus Quest is a $400 Snapdragon 835 powered...
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Sorry about that, you are going to have to post your smartphone usage stats to Facebook manually now
You may remember news back in the summer of 2018 about Facebook's Onavo Protect VPN, when it was pulled from the Apple store due to the fact it collected an...
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Facebook announces Oculus Quest All-in-One VR System
Today, at their Oculus Connect 5 developer conference, Facebook announced the Oculus Quest standalone VR headset. Oculus Quest (previously codenamed Santa Cruz) is similar to the Oculus Go...
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GDC 2018: Microsoft Discusses WinML API for Games
Microsoft announced the Windows Machine Learning (WinML) API about two weeks ago, but they did so in a sort-of abstract context. This...
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Today Is Palmer Luckey’s Last Day at Facebook / Oculus
Almost exactly two months after ZeniMax won a $500 million USD judgement against Oculus, subject to appeal, of course, co-founder Palmer Luckey will leave the company. As expected, Facebook...
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ZeniMax Awarded $500 Million USD in Oculus Lawsuit
On May 1st, 2014, ZeniMax, who owns id Software and Bethesda Softworks, sued Oculus VR, claiming that it had some ownership of their virtual reality technology. This accusation occurred about a month…
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What’s up with WhatsApp
By now you will have seen a headline screaming something about the security of Facebook's WhatsApp messaging service, ranging from somewhere between a backdoor purposefully inserted into the app to a complete…
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Blizzard Announces Live Streaming
So I was greeted with an interesting pop-up when I updated my Battle.net launcher today. Turns out Blizzard is pushing Blizzard Streaming to “the Americas, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand”. Currently,…
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