Lenovo pilots VR as an alternative to general anesthesia for kids
Whether you’re an adult or a child, medical procedures can be intimidating or uncomfortable enough to cause panic — one reason patients might need...
ProBeat: Even Ronaldinho needs computer vision to promote Teqball
Every year, Web Summit attracts celebrities from all over the world. This time, one of them was Ronaldinho, one of the greatest soccer football...
Microsoft starts shipping Hololens 2 for $3,500
Microsoft unveiled Hololens 2, its second-generation augmented reality headset, earlier this year at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Seattle company’s been taking preorders...
Google open-sources Cardboard to keep ‘no-frills’ VR widely available
Google may have canned Daydream VR and poured cold water on both its Cardboard viewers and VR SDK, but it doesn’t want to see...
An Apple-Valve AR headset deal makes sense given iOS 13’s StarBoard
Apple rumors are perennially popular for two major reasons: First, the company’s actual announcements are so few and far between that only “what’s next?” speculation...
Your posture is killing you: What gamers should know about ergonomics
The video game industry is reaching more people than ever — but this also means that ergonomic issues and injuries will happen more often...
Google Play Points launches in the U.S.
In September 2018, Google launched Google Play Points, a program that rewards Google Play Store customers with points that can be put toward purchase...
DeepMind’s AlphaStar Final beats 99.8% of human StarCraft 2 players
Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind — which famously developed AlphaZero, a machine learning system that bested world champions in chess, shogi, and Go — returned to...
LG Dual Screen review: Where are the apps?
In August, we reviewed the LG Dual Screen, a clamshell case for the LG V50 ThinQ with a built-in screen that doubles as a...
Fortnite’s black hole teases the future of entertainment
As audiences have embraced on-demand video services, algorithmic feeds, and an ever-growing number of digital “things to do,” our collective attentions have become hyper-fragmented....