3D models for valve's new VR controller
I'm not reading that you got to read that I'm not reading that it's our
thousandth episode did you even know it's not do this for me it is say it one
say it one time to celebrate our 1,000th episode Riley asked me to say quick bits
a thousand times so here it is quick bits a thousand
times oh I wanted to be here a while 3D models for valve's new VR controllers
code named Roy have been found in driver files for steam VR by who else Brad
Lynch a developer and Creator who's really shown what it looks like to make
leaking valve stuff your whole personality a good way Brad and his
community quickly generated highquality renders of the controllers which look
very similar to The Meta Quest 3 and 3s controllers with no tracking Rings or
valve index style knuckle straps let's grip it or lose it baby lint also posted
the designs in their Discord so people could 3D print them which they did and
boy howdy do those ever look like VR controllers made of extruded plastic the
Roy controllers are likely to pair with valve's decked VR headset which has been
described in prolific leaks by Lynch and is expected to foro the index's tracking
base stations in favor of meta Quest style Inside Out tracking that is
interesting but perhaps not as exciting as the also leak designed for something
code named Ibex aka the steam controller
2 aka the steam Duke I new valve still
had some innovation in them good job make it chunkier Google is turning
normal Texton websites into links to its own search results within the Google app
in an obvious Cry for Help while being sued for favoring its own services in
multiple jurisdictions the feature spotted by Barry Schwarz of search
engine round table is called page annotations and was rolled out by Google
about a week ago as a new way to get more info by modifying website owners
Pages for them and steering users away from the site they're currently using
we're helping Google's own example shows
an annotation turning the first two words of an article describing Osaka
Castle into a link to a Google search for the very same thing which is a bit
like dumping the water cooler on your coach while he's swimming Labs gotcha
website owners can opt out of the feature by filling out a form all you've
got to do is enter the URLs that you represent in a comma separated list
including all variations of the domain and then wait 30 days for it to take
effect wait you don't want links we links lus a group of artists given
Early Access to open AI Sora video generator for the purpose of testing
leaked the tools API key on the model hosting platform hugging face briefly
giving anyone the ability to summon hyper realistic videos of Sheba inu's
riding surfboards in space or cats riding surfboards in space those really
are the two main ones in a blog post the group going by PR puppets decried open
AI using hundreds of artists to perform bug testing and experimental work with
no compensation beyond the chance to enter a competition to have their Sora
created films screened pretty good they now feel like they were lured into
artwashing making it seem like open AI cares about the Arts as something other
than refined fuel that its Advanced hallucinator can burn to make more AI
slop in a statement open AI basically said well nobody made you sign up to
test it and the company will quote continue to support artists through
grants events and other programs just not this one anymore open AI obviously
cut off access to Sora when they discovered the leak but some managed to
generate a few rather uninteresting videos of some dudes running down an
alley and a cat yawning couldn't you have given it a pirate hat or something
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part parts of news cute tootes just just an idea tsmc has shown off its plans to
upgrade its chip on wafer on substrate or cowos technology to support much
bigger interposers and up to 12 stacks of hbm 4 memory by 2027 this will allow
chip designers to build processors the size of a human Palm not mine like a
real one like bigger uh it's not quite the same as those wafer scale chips from
cerebras but it's about what you do with it you know in other chip news Intel's
chips act funding has finally been finalized at $ 7.86 billion pending the
company achieving certain Milestones it's a little less than the original 82
billion but the government threw in an extra free Bill if Intel gives them some
extra secure processors here's a tip Intel make them better than the last gen
ones just an idea I mean a processor that doesn't work is pretty
secure Microsoft has clarified that it is not training AI on your documents
after a bit of public confusion over a feature called connected experiences in
Microsoft 365 which is what they call office now and which shares the same
logo as co-pilot for some reason I really hope Microsoft figures out at
some point that branding is important bring back clippy and in other AI news
Microsoft is no doubt one of the massive
corporations that owns too many game studios according to a tweet from Elon
Musk therefore his solution is that xai
is going to make games great Again by starting an AI game
studio with Blackjack and hookers no
wait sorry no wait it really is just that isn't it awesome Beyond any
concerns I may have about the abundance of procedurally generated mobile zombie
games that we already have I think the thing that stands out most about this is
I just don't get the logic behind xai which is owned by the world's richest
man and is now worth like $50 billion not counting as a massive Corporation
well they have a bigger bank account but it's like two people like now that
gaming handhelds are all the rage it's time the market got a little more wacky
with the designs a patent file by Samsung and spotted by 91 mobiles
describes a handheld that takes a page from the company's zones book and then
folds it in half so that the two ends with controller buttons meet they're
kissing and then there's this 10-cent 3D one a concept device powered by lunar
Lake which basically looks like an Rog Ally but with a massive 11-in screen
between detachable controllers which looks perfect for getting in some reps
while gaming you can finally stop playing Beat saber and researchers in
Hong Kong have published a paper detailing a way to deliver different
taste experiences through a prototype electronic
lollipop or as the researchers call it a
miniaturized portable gustation interface Microsoft is that you designed
for mixed reality the device Alters its own taste using iono foris sending ions
to transport flavor chemicals through a biologically safe hydrel the flavors on
offer include Citrus Cherry milk green
tea passion fruit grapefruit and durian huh as long as I only taste it and I
don't have to smell it then I'm okay and you know what I would like to smell you
coming back on Friday to get more Tech news from me that'll be the Thousand
first episode which is kind of special in its own way I guess it's another it's
also an episode it's also a number