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Control VR emerges from stealth with a motion capture glove for virtual reality

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by on June 5, 2014 at 2:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets

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Virtual reality headsets are super cool, but they need new types of input methods to go with them to make their experiences truly immersive. Later today, Control VR will bring its motion capture technology out of stealth with the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for a sensor-laden glove that tracks your hand movements down to the finger. Backers who contribute $350 or more can get an early version of the Control VR hardware, along with SDK access and tutorials. In a statement, Medal of Honor and Battlefield Producer Greg Goodrich called Control VR “the most significant development in virtual reality since Oculus.” The…

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Samsung and Barnes & Noble partner to launch a Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablet

Jun05
by on June 5, 2014 at 2:16 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Samsung and Barnes & Noble are joining forces to build co-branded tablets. That’s right, the result of this partnership will mean you’ll be able to buy a co-branded Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablet, meshing Samsung’s hardware with customized Nook software. This means you’ll get a reading-focused Android tablet that directs you to Barnes & Noble’s arsenal of three million digital books, magazines and newspapers. Last June, we reported that Barnes & Noble was ceasing to make its own Nook tablets, moving to a partner-centric model instead. Though that hasn’t stopped its competitors from launching their own tablets designed for…

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Square announces invoicing feature for business customers

Jun05
by on June 5, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Square wants to further embed itself in your business. The payment company is adding free invoicing to its register service. Square Invoices ties directly to the Square account of a business. Sellers can send unlimited invoices to suppliers without a monthly fee. But, like the register service, Square will levy a 2.75% transaction fee on all transactions. The company hopes that invoicing through its system will reduce taking payments over the phone and make keeping track of invoices easier for small businesses because it’s tied to the same system used to collect sales. This continues Square’s path towards becoming a one-stop shop…

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Twitter acquires Namo Media to boost its native ads offering

Jun05
by on June 5, 2014 at 12:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Twitter has acquired a number of startups recently, and the latest is a native mobile ad specialist called Namo Media. The startup helps developers run native in-stream ads in the midst of their app, creating revenue opportunities and an experience that wasn’t off-putting to new and existing users. Namo Media offers “adaptive templates” which are essentially modules that developers could customise to their liking. The closer the ad looks to the rest of the app, the higher the probability that a user will actually stop and engage. If that in turn generates more ‘taps’ from users, advertisers and ad networks…

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Shrturl.co: You’ll never trust a shortened URL again

Jun05
by on June 5, 2014 at 12:33 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Product Reviews

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We always like it when our people work on their own projects and hobbies. Hacking cool stuff together is in our DNA and how most of the companies that make up The Next Web got started. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that our talented designer Alexander Griffioen built a cool little tool on his own time. What it does is slightly more surprising, or worrying, depending on who you ask. Shrturl.co is a shortener that allows you to edit the page that its shortened URLs link to. It works like this: you visit shrturl.co, enter a page URL…

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