On a regular day, I wake up, put on my VR goggles, then I check my friends’ Snapchats. Snapchat has moved on from old-school ‘smartphones’ to VR. Now we watch our friends’ Snaps in 360° video as if we were looking at the world through their eyes. All the celebrities I follow vie for attention with full vlog episodes of days in their lives, but I’m pretty sure most of them are faking it. I heard a rumour that most of them just employ people to film interesting videos of a lavish lifestyle for the attention and then claim it’s coming from their goggles.
I know, It’s probably super weird for you guys to hear this, but Kanye West is one of the most popular vloggers in the world right now. He’s actually grown sick of his egotistic personality and now he strives for realism and honesty in his vlogs.
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Sony developing movie based on internet meme ‘Slender Man’ via /r/gadgets http://ift.tt/1SXKptR
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Scientists at University of California Berkeley’s Biomimetic Millisystems Lab have built these two VelociRoACHs — or bug-like millirobots and taught them some impressive skills. Who knew such small robots could be so creepy?
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Scientists have developed a lightweight metal foam which can turn speeding armour-piercing bullets into dust in the blink of an eye.
The revolutionary material has applications in a number of areas, from the battlefield to space exploration and nuclear waste storage.
Afsaneh Rabiei, mechanical and aerospace engineering professor at North Carolina State University, has spent her career working on composite metal foams, or CMFs. …
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Nintendo NX may use game cardridgets via /r/gadgets http://ift.tt/1O83lsQ
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Company behind Kickstarter’s thinnest ever watch declares bankruptcy via /r/gadgets http://ift.tt/1WKFYHx
The Virtuix Omni is a $699 device that allows you to walk through virtual reality while wearing a VR headset. It all starts by getting strapped into the harness safeguard thing while wearing special low friction shoes. It’s not actually a treadmill, it’s more of a slippery concave bowl of which you’re constantly running up the sides.
See TechCrunch reporter Lucas Matney in action here.
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