Share This article During Microsoft’s initial Xbox One reveal and subsequent E3 demonstrations, it mentioned a capability that we haven’t heard much about since. According to the company, the could theoretically be paired with offsite cloud rendering platforms at some point in the future to deliver a superior game experience to anything the console could handle on its own. Since then, Redmond has been silent on what form the technology might take or if we’d ever see a version of it in the wild — until now. A new paper, published in collaboration with Duke University and the University
Share This article If a 2D picture is worth a thousand words, then a 3D image is worth a million. With holography, it is possible to reconstruct 3D images using holograms, and the process is unlike anything found in traditional display technology. Even though it was invented over 70 years ago, holography remains the best candidate for achieving true 3D displays. Here we present six things you may not know about the strange and wonderful world of holography. 1. Tupac is not a hologram When you see Tupac, Michael Jackson, or anyone for that matter projected in the way
Share This article The Witcher 3 has been both critically and commercially successful since its release last week, but it’s not without its issues. Most notably, the frame rate on the PS4 and Xbox One has been sub-par. Nobody sincerely expected it to be hitting 60fps on either console, but it seems that it can’t even maintain a solid 30fps. We’re a year and a half into this console generation, and AAA developers still can’t keep the frame rate up. The team at Digital Foundry did of the PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game, but the results
Share This article Researchers and companies alike have been scrambling to come up with a next-generation battery, but one of the more unlikely places we’d expect to hear about it is from the study of holography. Recently, a team of engineers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign demonstrated that porous, three-dimensional electrodes can boost a lithium-ion microbattery’s power output
Share This article Many modern pharmaceuticals are worth their weight in gold. Unfortunately, only around 5% of our prescribed drugs can cross the blood brain barrier. That means there is a huge untapped reservoir of neurological disease that cannot be mined for profit. Companies that make drugs for neurodegenerative disease, like Biogen, are now coming up with their own
Share This article If you’ve ever streamed on Twitch.tv, you might have noticed that there is a significant delay between the real-time gameplay and what the viewers can see. The Twitch team knows that’s an issue for some people, and so they’re working on reducing the delay to a more manageable time window. While this could potentially cause some
Share This article Ever since Oculus launched the Rift’s Kickstarter, there’ve been questions about what kind of PC hardware would be required to drive the experience. Oculus has long been coy on the details. But as of today, it’s finally — and the requirements are fairly high. According to the company, you’ll need the following if you want to
Share This article Today’s ExtremeTalk is brought to you by the of the Oculus Rift VR’s formal hardware requirements. is shaping up a bit like 3-D movies did in the late 2000s, albeit with very different players behind the controls. You’ve got hype, and you’ve got some killer demos, early hardware, and impressive capabilities. As with 3-D, you have
BUENOS AIRES Toxicology tests have revealed that the irritant used to attack River Plate players during an Argentine clasico match at Boca Juniors stadium was a homemade concoction consisting of hot pepper sauce, cayenne pepper and acid, local media reported Saturday. That mixture, which is known as mostacero in prison culture and produces skin irritation and a burning sensation, was
