Alongside the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), IBM announced in March that it would help coordinate an effort to provide hundreds of petaflops of compute to scientists researching the coronavirus. As part of the newly launched COVID-19 High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium, IBM pledged to assist in …
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Baobab Studios, the developers behind Bonfire, Asteroids! and more, revealed that its next project is an immersive experience called “Baba Yaga.” The 2020 Annecy International Animation Festival Online will unveil a first look in a few weeks. Baba Yaga’s co-directors are Baobab cofounder Eric Darnell and French director Mathias Chelebourg. The experience …
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Dauntless will be releasing its next major update, Call of the Void, on June 11. It will bring new activities, a new monster, and more when it launches for free on PC, Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The online action role-playing game has players teaming up to fight giant …
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Schell Games’ I Expect You To Die is the latest VR title to celebrate huge success on Oculus Quest. The game, which launched on Facebook’s standalone headset last year, has sold nearly 100,000 copies on the platform, generating $ 2 million in revenue. In September 2018, over six months before …
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Governments and populations around the world are looking for strategies to ease pandemic lockdown restrictions. Improving how we respond once an infected person is diagnosed can help keep the curve flat while also enabling healthy and recovered people to go out and interact in public again. The main approach governments are …
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The Oculus PC app v18 update improves the accuracy of positional tracking prediction for Oculus Link. Oculus Link is the feature which lets Oculus Quest act as a PC VR headset via a USB cable. This gives Quest owners who own a gaming PC access to the Oculus Rift library and …
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League of Legends publisher Riot Games said that it will invest $ 10 million in founders who are underrepresented minorities and women in the video game community. And through Riot Games’ Social Impact Fund, the company will commit $ 1 million in contributions to The Innocence Project and the ACLU …
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This week, as thousands of protestors marched in cities around the U.S. to bring attention to the death of George Floyd, police brutality, and abuses at the highest levels of government, members of the AI research community made their own small gestures of support. NeurIPS, one of the world’s largest …
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Everybody says they’re tired of Zoom video conference calls, but there hasn’t been much to take its place. Now emerging tech PR/event agency EAK Digital and London-based Sine Wave Entertainment have teamed up to create a blockchain technology conference in a virtual world. The BlockDown conference will take place June …
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