Wednesday, January 27, 2016
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Virtual Reality (VR) Requires More Powerful Personal Computers
Taiwan - That desktop tower may still have a use soon, and according to some experts, less than one percent of the world's PCs will be able to run them.
Few people own hardware capable of fully supporting Facebook's Oculus Rift or HTC's Vibe. It is estimated in 2016 just 13 million PCs worldwide will have the graphics capabilities needed to run VR, according to an estimate by Nvidia, the world's largest maker of graphics chips. VR headsets create immersive 3D environments the wearer can interact with and explore. Facebook will sell its first VR products to consumers near the end of March 2016, says Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey in a December 22, 2015 tweet. Filling that desktop tower with new, or more, plug-in graphics chips, video-game sound cards, and a speedier microprocessor is a good idea. Making VR seem real requires an increase in the amount of computing power your PC has, for example video-games always have a minimum hardware requirement for them to run. Most computers struggle to meet the needs of VR. To bring your computer to tip-top Oculus Rift processing power, Facebook says, you should include the following new or additional things in your upgraded PC: Nvidiia Ge Force 970 or AMD Radeon 290 graphics card (approximately $300), an Intel 15- class processor, more than 8- gigabytes of memory, and two USB 3.0 ports. If you don't want to upgrade your old desktop tower, you can purchase a laptop with comparable computing capability for about $1,500.
VR is a step beyond 3D. While Oculus Rift and Vive require more powerful PCs, without the required 90 frames per second on two video projections (one for each eye) we will not be convinced the image we are viewing is real. The average PC runs at 30 frames per second. HTC in on track to put its Vive headset in stores in April. See also, www.pcworld.com.
Few people own hardware capable of fully supporting Facebook's Oculus Rift or HTC's Vibe. It is estimated in 2016 just 13 million PCs worldwide will have the graphics capabilities needed to run VR, according to an estimate by Nvidia, the world's largest maker of graphics chips. VR headsets create immersive 3D environments the wearer can interact with and explore. Facebook will sell its first VR products to consumers near the end of March 2016, says Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey in a December 22, 2015 tweet. Filling that desktop tower with new, or more, plug-in graphics chips, video-game sound cards, and a speedier microprocessor is a good idea. Making VR seem real requires an increase in the amount of computing power your PC has, for example video-games always have a minimum hardware requirement for them to run. Most computers struggle to meet the needs of VR. To bring your computer to tip-top Oculus Rift processing power, Facebook says, you should include the following new or additional things in your upgraded PC: Nvidiia Ge Force 970 or AMD Radeon 290 graphics card (approximately $300), an Intel 15- class processor, more than 8- gigabytes of memory, and two USB 3.0 ports. If you don't want to upgrade your old desktop tower, you can purchase a laptop with comparable computing capability for about $1,500.
VR is a step beyond 3D. While Oculus Rift and Vive require more powerful PCs, without the required 90 frames per second on two video projections (one for each eye) we will not be convinced the image we are viewing is real. The average PC runs at 30 frames per second. HTC in on track to put its Vive headset in stores in April. See also, www.pcworld.com.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Saturday, January 2, 2016
New Year's Fireworks Show Really Ignites
Dubai - The 48th floor of Dubai's 63 story Address hotel ignited at approximately 9:30 p.m. (12:30 p.m. ET) New Year's Eve. A fireworks show less than a quarter of a mile away, billed as the worlds biggest, went on as planned. Witnesses said they heard explosions on one side of the towering structure, in the heart of Downtown Dubai, parts of the building began crashing to the ground, hours after the blaze began. Flames leaped up the building as governments around the world were on high alert for possible terrorist attacks tied to New Year's Eve celebrations, there is no initial indication there terrorism is to blame. See whole story, www.cnn.com.
Friday, January 1, 2016
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