3D models for Valve's new VR controller. I'm not reading that. You gotta 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 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.
I wanted to be here a while. 3D models for Valve's new VR controllers codenamed 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
Brad and his community quickly generated high-quality renders of the controllers
Which look very similar to the MetaQuest 3 and 3s controllers with no tracking rings or valve index style
Knucklestraps. It's grip it or lose it, baby. Lynch 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
Deckard VR headset which has been described in prolific leaks by Lynch and is expected to forego the indexes tracking base stations in
favor of MetaQuest style inside outtracking. That is
Interesting, but perhaps not as exciting as the also leaked design for something codenamed Ibex aka the Steam Controller 2
aka the Steam Duke. I knew Valve still had some innovation in them. Good job
Google is turning normal text on 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 Schwartz of search engine roundtable is called
Page Annotations and was rolled up 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
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 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
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 Shiba Inu's writing surfboards in space or
Cats writing surfboards in space Those really are the two main ones see 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
They now feel like they were lured into art washing 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 the 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 that would have been art little?
Little smaller parts of news cute toots
TSMC has shown off its plans to upgrade its chip on wafer on substrate or
Cow-os Technology to support much bigger interposers and up to 12 stacks of HBM for 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
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 seven point eight six billion dollars
Pending the company achieving certain milestones It's a little less than the original eight and a half 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 popilot for some reason
I really hope Microsoft figured it 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 X AI is gonna 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 X AI
Which is owned by the world's richest man and is now worth like 50 billion dollars
Not counting as a massive corporation
Now that gaming handhelds are all the rage It's time the market got a little more wacky with the designs a patent filed by Samsung and spotted by
91 mobiles describes a handheld that takes a page from the company's Z phones book and then
Folds it in half so that the two ends with controller buttons meet
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 inch screen between detachable controllers
Which looks perfect for getting in some reps while gaming
And researchers in Hong Kong have published a paper detailing a way to deliver different taste experiences through a prototype
electronic lollipop, huh, or as the researchers call it a
miniaturized portable Estation interface
Microsoft is that you designed for mixed reality the device alters its own taste using
Ion tophoresis Sending ions to transport flavor chemicals through a biologically safe hydro gel
The flavors on offer include citrus cherry milk green tea passion fruit grapefruit and durian
As long as I only taste it and I don't have to smell it 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 and first episode, which is kind of special in its own way. I guess
It's also a number