Not quite worthy of the wow factor bestowed upon the new Note 7, but Samsung wasn’t going to get out of this morning’s Unpacked event with another big reveal. The hardware maker is recommitting itself to the cause of low-cost virtual reality with a refresh to its Gear VR headset. The line, notably, is not […]
Digital music may have brought the experience of listening to an artist to a more convenient platform than ever, but there’s never really been a way to replicate the social experience of seeing an artist perform live at a concert. TheWaveVR is hoping to do just that by utilizing social VR to bring people closer to […]
What’s a good gift for a Martian rover who’s just turning four? Water, obviously. Barring that, however, a fun little mobile game will do. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory enlisted the skills of GAMEE to develop Mars Rover, an adorable little side scroller created in honor of Curiosity’s fourth year on the red planet. It’s a […]
LinkedIn announced today that it is open sourcing a tool called Test Butler, which was developed in-house to overcome limitations on Android app test emulators. As LinkedIn was developing its latest Android app, it decided to completely overhaul the way it develops and tests apps. But it ran into a huge testing limitation that was slowing it down in an […]
After launching in the UK and Switzerland, France is now Apple Pay’s third European market. Image: Pret a Manger Apple has finally launched its mobile payments service Apple Pay in France, bringing the number of countries it supports to eight. According to Apple’s French website, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch owners will be able to […]
If you use Zenfolio to host your photography portfolio, make sure you’re aware of the company’s Easy Photo Album Design Service, which launched in May 2016 to make it easier for photographers to sell albums. If you make and sell your own albums to customers, you’ll want to turn the feature off. And it seems […]
Xiaomi is broadening its already expansive range of products by venturing into virtual reality for the first time. The company today announced the ‘Mi VR Play’, an “entry-level” virtual reality headset that it hopes can open this new exciting medium up to new audiences because not everyone has thousands of dollars needed to set up an Oculus […]
Funding a project on Kickstarter is like placing a bet – will the project ever work? Will it ship? Or will you just be out a chunk of change? That said, the crowdfunding platform has enabled a number of companies to get off the ground, including those that range from gadgets and electronics to toys and […]
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Google today released a new application designed to get kids to explore the world using maps and 3D imagery. The new app, which the company describes as “an experiment,” takes advantage of Google Maps’ 3D imagery of the Himalayas but combines it with a bit of gameplay to make the idea of zooming around the 3D […]