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At the Game Developers Conference today, Sony took the wraps off a virtual reality device for the PlayStation 4, codenamed ‘Project Morpheus’. The immersive headset creates “presence” via sight, sound, tracking, control, ease of use, and content, Sony says. Shuhei Yoshida, the head of PlayStation’s videogame software division, explains Sony’s rationale for the headset: “I have long dreamed about VR and the possibilities it brings in regards to game development. This new technology will deliver a sense of presence, where you as the player actually feel like you’re inside the game and your emotions feel that much more real.” Yoshida says…
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Pocket, the read-it-later service that lets you bookmark articles and videos from across the Web to read or watch later, is going well and truly global today. Thus far, the Pocket platform has only been available in English. But now, the Android, iOS and Web app are available in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. More languages will be added soon. According to the company, more than 40% of Pocket users already speak a language other than English as their mother tongue, so this should go down well with its global user-base. And looking beyond mere translations, Pocket is…
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Google has finally launched its Chromecast streaming dongle — which allows for ’casting’ of content from a smartphone, tablet or laptop to any HDMI-equipped TV — outside the US for the first time since it launched in July last year. From today, Chromecast is available to buy in Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland, in addition to the US. In the UK, it costs £30 and is available from Google Play, Amazon, Currys and PC World – those latter two got a bit ahead of themselves and actually put it up for sale ahead of launch….
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Airbnb founder on branching out into other services, promoting the local economy… and THAT orgy
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A lot has been written about the so-called sharing economy in recent times. Some of it has been negative, some reports have questioned the rising tide of legislation that may hamper its growth, while others have merely analyzed the staggering rise of this peer-to-peer product of the Internet age. At the Guardian’s Changing Media Summit in London today, Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder and CTO of Airbnb, was in the house to discuss all-things, well, Airbnb. He covered familiar ground, including the history of the company and lessons learned in those first years, but he also touched on the issue of what could be…
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