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FNIRS Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy: The Neural Lace Podcast Season 2 Episode 4
FNIRS Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy: The Neural Lace Podcast Season 2 Episode 4
This podcast was recorded just over a week before Jonathan Toomim will give a talk about FNIRS at NeurotechX in San Francisco at the Red…
Valve Index: Everything revealed: Off-Ear Audio that fits your ears without touching them, the…
Valve Index: Everything revealed: Off-Ear Audio that fits your ears without touching them, the…
120Hz frame rate (up to 144Hz), 5x lower persistence than first gen HTC Vive, improvements in image sharpness, reduced screen door effect…
F8 News: Oculus Quest pre-orders open today. Shipping May 21st. $399
F8 News: Oculus Quest pre-orders open today. Shipping May 21st. $399
The Oculus Quest is not just a new VR device it’s a cultural event.
The Oculus Quest is not just a new VR device it’s a cultural event.
Quest is a generational event because not only is it a great system but you will be able to play with up to four friends in some of the…
Weekly Summary — Game Boy’s 30th Anniversay; 3 freebies; 2 game updates; 1 community update; 1…
Weekly Summary — Game Boy’s 30th Anniversay; 3 freebies; 2 game updates; 1 community update; 1…
Short summaries of gaming-related and tech-related news.
Facebook is basically Donald Trump: Meaning that as soon as you sign into Facebook on your Oculus…
Facebook is basically Donald Trump: Meaning that as soon as you sign into Facebook on your Oculus…
I will back up this argument by citing these news sources about what Facebook does. It’s interesting to see the public becoming as…
Virtual reality for pain relief and Stentrode: A brain computer interface that can be implanted in…
Virtual reality for pain relief and Stentrode: A brain computer interface that can be implanted in…
At the Game Developer Conference in 2019 I spoke to David Putrino, PhD, about Mount Sinai’s work on a Neural Lace product called Stentrode…
Facebook unprofessionally retaliates against Group Admins and Journalists who write unfavorable…
Facebook unprofessionally retaliates against Group Admins and Journalists who write unfavorable…
Facebook hurts itself by attacking journalists and cracks down on group admins with new policies.
My application to become an Oculus Quest developer was denied.
My application to become an Oculus Quest developer was denied.
Here is what I pitched, what Oculus said, and what my response was.
A VPN is not expected to be on the Oculus Quest.
A VPN is not expected to be on the Oculus Quest.
The Oculus Quest, Facebook’s flagship product, is not expected to have a VPN or to care about your security at all. This may be deliberate…
Terrorists may have infiltrated social media companies like Facebook and youtube, taking…
Terrorists may have infiltrated social media companies like Facebook and youtube, taking…
Facebook’s executives, managers and employee’s, the beloved company behind the Oculus Rift, are now under global suspicion for possible…
What if there was a show that combined Westworld with Game of Thrones. Call it Westeros
What if there was a show that combined Westworld with Game of Thrones. Call it Westeros
Check out this amazing intro for the new show called Westeros that a creative team built. Will we ever see Westeros turned into a real…
Valve Index shows up right on time to crush the weak excuse of a VR headset called Oculus Rift S.
Valve Index shows up right on time to crush the weak excuse of a VR headset called Oculus Rift S.
Thank goodness the Valve Index is almost here: The Oculus Rift S ($399) is a terrible product for the price, it’s a backwards step for…
Megacity will bring vast immensely detailed game worlds to standalone XR devices like Oculus Quest…
Megacity will bring vast immensely detailed game worlds to standalone XR devices like Oculus Quest…
Unity’s MegaCity demo, unveiled at UniteLA, and expanded upon by Unity at GDC 2019 means the most amazingly rich detailed PC games can be…
Stormland is the last best desktop VR title that I still want to play.
Stormland is the last best desktop VR title that I still want to play.
Stormland was hella cool to play and its pretty much the only title on desktop VR that I really want to play all the way through right now…
While the Oculus Quest rules, the Oculus Rift S sucks and is overpriced at $399.
While the Oculus Quest rules, the Oculus Rift S sucks and is overpriced at $399.
Beat Saber on Oculus Quest could be the perfect exercise machine. It’s also the best version of Beat Saber yet, primarily because there…
Oculus’s Nate Mitchell has hinted that big price cuts will be coming to the Oculus Quest and the…
Oculus’s Nate Mitchell has hinted that big price cuts will be coming to the Oculus Quest and the…
My intuition is that by the end of the summer of 2019 the permanent price of the Rift S will drop to $299, and that by Black Friday in…
Running a FREE Public VR Setup For 4000 Hours Per Year.
Running a FREE Public VR Setup For 4000 Hours Per Year.
VR is quite the hot topic these past few years. Everyone wants to try it, no one want to pay the extreme prices for it. To combat this…
A Small List Of Women In The Videogames Industry
A Small List Of Women In The Videogames Industry
Today is International Women’s Day 2019. This is a small list of women who made contributions to the videogame industry.
Global Game Jam 2019
Global Game Jam 2019
Videogame developers/programmers, artists, and musicians of all skill levels participated in the Global Game Jam 2019, on January 25 to 27.
Here is everything you need to know about the Varjo VR headset, including how its uniquely…
Here is everything you need to know about the Varjo VR headset, including how its uniquely…
You may have seen in recent news an annoucement for the new Varjo VR-1 Headset. Well I’ve gotten my hands on the Varjo VR headset three…