The first Google Tango phone delivers true augmented reality gaming
If it weren’t for Pokémon Go, augmented reality might have stayed another forlorn futurist technology the public paid little attention to. Instead, the AR mobile game from developer Niantic Labs, a former Google subsidiary, catapulted the technology to hundreds of millions of smartphone owners around the world. Now a few months after the game’s launch, the first fully capable AR smartphone has started shipping. It’s Lenovo’s Phab 2 Pro, and under the hood it contains the hardware and software n..>> view originalXiaomi's Bezel-Less Mi MIX Phablet Gets Dismantled In China
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Instagram wants you to shop without always having to interrupt your scrolling with a browser window. That’s why today it will start showing shoppable tags on photos from 20 retail brands like Kate Spade and JackThreads to iOS users in the US. The retailers tag products in their photos, which are hidden behind a “Tap to view products” button. After selecting their product of choice, users see an in-app details page with a specific product’s price, description, additional photos, and a “Shop Now..>> view originalHere's everything that's new in iOS 10.2 beta 1 [Video]
iOS 10.2 beta 1 brings some significant new changes to iOS 10. Headlined by over 70 new Unicode 9 emoji, the update is now available to iOS developers. A public beta version was just released as well. Have a look at 14 of the new features and changes in this brief hands-on video walkthrough. Improved animations I’ve found UI animations to be a little odd acting on my iPhone 7 Plus prior to iOS 10.2 beta 1. The update seems to have ironed out many of the peculiarities with the UI animations, a..>> view originalTony Faddell's Actev Motors starts shipping its fast electric go-kart for kids
From the mind of iPod and Nest co-creator Tony Fadell comes the smart electric vehicle for kids. Actev Motors is announcing today it is shipping the Arrow Smart Kart, an app-controlled kart that can go a speedy 12 miles per hour. Fadell came up with the idea after he went go-kart racing with his son. He wasn’t impressed with the vehicle, so he asked his friend Dave Bell if he could come up with a design for a modular electric kart. Bell assembled a team in 2014 and started taking preorders in F..>> view originalMicrosoft has stopped selling Windows 7 Professional, Windows 8.1
As of yesterday, Microsoft has stopped selling Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to system builders. The only way to acquire a copy of these operating systems now is to buy the dwindling stock still available online. Technically, most versions of Windows 7 were pulled off the market two years ago, but Windows 7 Professional was still cleared for sale until October 31, as were all of the flavors of Windows 8.1. The chart below shows Microsoft’s sales chart for preinstalled versions of Windows.Windows 10 ..>> view originalFacebook Gameroom PC Gaming Project Unveiled, To Compete With Steam
Facebook has been working on extending its reach over the gaming community. The company has expanded into PC gaming with its Gameroom feature. The feature was announced in August and now the company has announced support for Unity in the Gameroom developer beta. The company has also confirmed that Unity 5.6 will ship with Facebook support in 2017."With Facebook Gameroom, Facebook is introducing an easier way for developers to bring high-quality games to the PC to take full advantage of the CPU a..>> view original
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
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