Tizen Experts is a site dedicated to providing you the latest Tizen News, delivered to you via the web, our mailing list (see the bottom of this post) or by our new Telegram channel. Here is the weekly roundup of last week's Tizen news for the week ending 30 July 2017, listing...
Facebook has slashed the price of the Oculus Rift for a second time, as part of its "Summer of Rift" sales season. The Oculus Rift and Touch controller are available for $399 and will remain at that price for six weeks. It is the second time Facebook has cut the...
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2016 has been a great year in wearable tech. We've seen the continued prominence of the smart watch, the rise of a new generation of virtual reality headsets, and a variety of new and unique products coming out of the crowdfunding world. 2016 kicked off with a record-breaking quarter, with...
Samsung has unveiled the latest details of his stunning, next-generation TV. Named SUHD Qualmark Red TV, it's based on the proprietary technology Samsung has pioneered: QLED, long for Quantum dot Light-Emitting Diode. According to sources from Samsung Electronics, the product will cover the high-end spectrum of the market, proposing itself as the...
Adoption of wearables in U.S. classrooms will supposedly grow at 46 percent annually till 2020, as more schools start to test virtual and augmented reality, fitness and location trackers. Research firm Technavio says that like iPads, wearables will become commonplace in the classroom, providing students with ways to enhance their...
In case you haven’t heard, there is a lot of hype right now about virtual and augmented reality. Three months into 2016, investors have already spent $1.1 billion to get a piece of the action. All this money, but no revenue and, in large part, no clear market. There are...
Guest author Richard MacManus is the founder of ReadWrite. This article originally appeared in his Augment Intelligence newsletter. If you’re thinking that virtual reality (VR) is all about gaming, then think again. Are you a sports fan? The US Open Golf Tournament was livestreamed in VR last year. A music fan? Paul McCartney,...
Guest author Emily Atwater works in content strategy at digital agency Huge. She wrote this piece with her colleague Gina Pensiero, who works in content strategy at SoundCloud. Digital creatives working in UX (user experience), tech and strategy are constantly putting themselves in the shoes of users to understand their motivations...
Drone maker Parrot's new flying gizmo, the Bebop 2 Quadricopter drone, will make its landing next month, just in time for holiday shoppers. According to the company, it’s a smaller, lighter, and easier-to-use model than the previous Bebop drone—which should please consumers interested in tossing one in a bag.For developers,...
Virtual reality wants to envelop everyone's eyeballs, not just those of gamers. The nascent industry wants couch potatoes, too.Oculus, the Facebook-owned VR gear maker that has come to embody the current virtual-reality wave, has been lobbying hard to make VR cinema an actual thing. The company just struck a deal last...
Asustek Computer Inc, the Taiwan-based company known widely as Asus, appears to be doing some window shopping—and it's eyeing fellow Taiwanese tech maker HTC, Reuters reports. The brief story's careful wording stops short of declaring the former's intentions, stating that "[Asus] has not ruled out the possibility of acquiring struggling smartphone...
With a presentation rivaling Google I/O's keynote in scope and ambition, Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) team took to the stage Friday to give the world a peek at its latest "badass," unconventional whacks at technology. Plucked from Motorola shortly before its sale to Lenovo in 2014, ATAP has spawned some of...
While Oculus has created immersive virtual 3D worlds inside the Rift headset, there isn’t much it can do with the actual world around the headset. However, that might change soon, as the Facebook-owned company announced the acquisition of computer vision startup Surreal Vision on Tuesday. See also: Get Your Faces Ready: Oculus...
Samsung Gear S standalone smartwatchSamsung's recent pledge to “pause” its smartwatch releases for “a more perfect product” apparently didn't last long. On Tuesday, SamMobile claimed to have new details about Samsung’s forthcoming round smartwatch.See also: Samsung's Smart Move: No More SmartwatchesEven worse, there's nothing particularly inspiring about the new device, either.New Shape,...
A wise man once said that reality is "simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain." Oculus, the virtual reality harbinger now owned by Facebook, agrees. And it wants you to believe it too, so you can accept virtual reality as a new form of reality."VR is more than just another platform,"...
The man in the car next to me is on the phone with the police. Just beyond him on the grass, a teenager in a hoodie is moving erratically. He takes off and the man chases after him, despite the police urging him to sit tight.It is, of course, the...
Valve may be living in its own virtual reality worldGaming and entertainment platform Steam has confirmed it has a "SteamVR hardware" device in development, which it will show off at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week. The Valve-owned company hasn't dropped many clues about what this hardware...
There are two Consumer Electronics Shows every year. One is all about glitz, with big gadget companies producing gonzo exhibits and lavish parties. The other is a low-key affair, where executives in back rooms discuss initiatives that will shape technology’s future. The latter is where I met Matt Apfel, Samsung’s vice...
On Monday at the Consumer Electronics Show, South Korean smartphone and TV maker Samsung pushed to strengthen its grip on the TV market with a slew of announcements.The TV maker is making a play to become not just an electronics vendor but an entertainment provider, too. It's pushing its Milk...
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