Oculus VR will make good on a promise that’s been years in the making: starting next week, the first consumer versions of the company’s Rift virtual reality headset will begin arriving at preorder customers’ doors. CEO Brendan Iribe today tweeted out a photo of a boxed Rift bundle to commemorate the event, saying deliveries begin on Monday, March 28th. For the VR enthusiasts and...
Google has dropped the price of the Nik Collection, a suite of seven desktop plug-ins aimed at advanced photographers, from $149 to nothing. The Nik Collection first came under Google’s stewardship when the company bought German developer Nik for its mobile editing app Snapseed; Google later dropped the price from $499.95 to $149. The Nik Collection has since grown from six to seven plug...
Apple is just days away from unveiling a new iPhone and 9.7-inch iPad Pro, and today 9to5Mac is reporting that you can expect to pay at least $599 for the latter. The smaller iPad Pro will start at a higher price than any 9.7-inch that’s come before it, but at least for that money you’ll be getting a bump in storage. The base iPad Pro will contain 32GB of storage, and 9to5Mac claims...
This is pure magic Watch on YouTube | Subscribe to Polygon on YouTube Tilt Brush is amazing. It’s magical. It’s a bunch of stuff that sounds like hyperbole when you write about it. We created the above video to describe why it’s so special before more people are able to try it when the HTC Vive launches in April of this year. For the video we used a combination of my own...
Below, a stunning-looking indie title from Toronto-based studio Capybara Games, is set to release on Xbox One and PC this summer. Capybara has said in the past the game would make its way out some time in 2016, but today announced the more narrowed release window at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Not much is known about Below save what it looks like on the surface. Capybara has...
Joining the likes of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, Samsung has introduced a new social media app called Waffle. The application is all about collaboration, as it allows you and your friends to share notes and illustrations and in turn add images and doodles to existing pictures or messages, thus creating a collaborative story or forum. A product of Samsung’s Creativity Lab, or C-Lab, Waffle is...
The Game Developers Conference doesn’t have the marketing of flashy video game conferences like E3, Gamescom, or Tokyo Game Show, but it’s no less important. For 27 years, the event has been a place for people and the games industry and the press to meet, mingle, and learn from one another. As it’s grown, GDC has also become a popular place for large game creators to show the cutting edge and...
A British teenager has won $250,000 after placing first in the inaugural World Drone Prix in Dubai. 15-year-old Luke Bannister piloted his drone to victory along an outdoor track, using a camera mounted on its front to steer the craft through a series of illuminated hoops from a first-person viewpoint, and beating out competition from 150 other teams in the process. Drone racing has rocketed in...
Like any piece of new technology, virtual reality needs a legacy mode to handle content not designed for VR. Soon, the HTC Vive (and other Steam VR headsets) will have just that, with "Desktop Theater Mode." Unfortunately, we don’t have any images of the feature yet, but it’s safe to assume it will be very similar to the YouTube "Virtual Movie Theater" for Google...
Supercar Credit: Rimac What started as a simple hobby for 28-year-old Mate Rimac has become a fast rising global business carving out its own niche in the automotive industry. It all began when the engine of an old BMW he was racing failed, and he figured he could possibly convert it into an electric car using pieces bought off the Internet. Fast forward 10 years and his company, Rimac...
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