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Steam Launches VR Video Section With Alien, Lego Batman And More

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Through a partnership with Seattle-based startup Pixvana, Valve is also launching a VR video section aimed at bringing many of the benefits of distributing a 360-degree video on Facebook or Google’s YouTube to PC users consuming content through Steam. Tracked Input and Keyboard control of video playback.

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Power and Responsibility: Highlights from Microsoft Build

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Live from Seattle, Tech Trends scoops up all the tastiest bites from the #MSBuild2018 developer’s conference. “We With customers in control, privacy is preserved Click To Tweet. We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what they should do,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in his opening keynote at Build.

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Is Personal Computing’s Next Conquest Your Face?

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Up north in Seattle, Amazon announced Echo Frames, lightweight glasses with the Alexa voice assistant embedded in them. Microsoft won the PC era and now has a tablet business, while Apple and Google have the dominant mobile operating systems. Google (search). There's now an arms race to capture the next computing platform.

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Valve, SMI and Tobii Preview VR’s Eye Tracking Future In HTC Vive

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The glowing orb could be recalled by pressing a button on the controller too, so I could throw the ball and the instant it collided with a bottle I could recall it back to my hand like Thor’s hammer. Initially, I couldn’t understand why I’d want the computer to help me so much.

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Exclusive: Here’s How Fantastic Contraption VR Devs Generated More Than $1 Million

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It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. Other teams in this group include Survios ( which is funded by investors to the tune of $50 million ) and Owlchemy Labs ( acquired by Google ). This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR.

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Amazon Wants You to Wake up and Travel with Alexa

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Amazon, hoping to replicate the success of its Echo device , is poised to extend its eyes and ears into every part of your life with the launch of new voice-controlled and camera-equipped Alexa devices designed for bedrooms, living rooms and even your car.

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Tesla’s data advantage. Can Apple, or others, keep up?

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I do too, and go even further than she does in studying this industry (I had the first ride in the first Tesla with Elon Musk and had the first video on YouTube of Google’s self-driving car, and have interviewed many in the industry, and also have a Twitter list of people and companies building autonomous cars ). Can Google match this?

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