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CastLabs | May 10, 2021

castLabs, a global leader of premium digital video technology, revealed support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS for Media & Entertainment program to help consumers meet their broadcasting and OTT streaming content security needs. AWS for Media & Entertainment is a program that includes innovative and emerging services and solutions from AWS and AWS Partners that are designed primarily for content owners, copyright holders, developers, broadcasters, and distributors. AWS ...

comicbook | March 05, 2020

A new PlayStation 5 patent has surfaced, and in the process has shed light on one of the PS5 controller's big new features: haptic feedback. Last year, Sony confirmed the DualShock 5 will come packing haptic feedback, alongside a slew of other features. According to PlayStation boss Jim Ryan, this feature is a game-changer for gaming on the PS5. That said, not many know how it actually works, which is what the aforementioned patent explains, at least partly. What you need to know is that the...

theverge | February 25, 2020

Qualcomm has revealed a reference design for its new virtual and augmented reality platform. The headset offers a rough guide for building with the Snapdragon XR2 — a 5G-enabled chipset designed for VR/AR hardware. The design is a prototype from electronics company Goertek, which has worked with Qualcomm before. It looks a lot like Qualcomm’s earlier XR1 reference design, as the company’s VR/AR (or collectively, “XR”) head Hugo Swart admitted to reporters. But it ca...

HP | May 29, 2020

Having started as one of the original manufacturers for Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality system, HP has been one of the few to actually continue reiterating. Last year saw the HP Reverb arrive, keenly focused towards enterprise use. For 2020, HP has officially announced the Reverb G2 which is going back to those consumer roots. The HP Reverb G2 was teased back in March, with the tech giant also collaborating with Valve as well as Microsoft on the new head-mounted display (HMD). The benefi...