Recently deceased Nintento President, Satoru Iwata, is set to have his years at the Japanese game maker honoured, by being given this year's Lifetime Achievement award at the 2016 DICE awards. This will be the first time it has ever been handed out posthumously. Iwata was one of Nintendo's most …
Read More »Microsoft rejects pitch for League of Legends Hololens match viewer
Right now, Microsoft is running a ‘Share Your Idea' program for the Hololens, in which people can submit potential applications for the Augmented Reality headset. One of the most popular potential apps, which recieved a lot of votes, was a League of Legends match viewer which would allow Hololens wearers …
Read More »Google is now getting serious about VR
Google is looking to get involved in the Virtual Reality space as well, following on from the likes of Facebook/Oculus, Sony and HTC/Valve, Google will now be stepping up its efforts with a dedicated VR division, headed by the boss behind the Google Cardboard headset, which was the company's first …
Read More »Google’s self-driving car has had some issues
Google's self-driving car technology is impressive and has been interesting to follow but it has had its fair share of problems according to Google's latest report. Between November 2014 and September 2015, Google's self-driving car experienced a total of 272 technical failures and was almost involved in 13 accidents. According …
Read More »Ross Ulbricht appeal kicks off with attack on corrupt feds
Convicted Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht has served a year of his double-life sentence without parole, but is now getting the chance to appeal his original conviction. The first step on that road is a big one too, as his legal team submitted a 140+ page document requesting the original trial …
Read More »Fleye shows not every drone needs exposed blades
As drones become more popular, the conversation has turned to safety. With their multiple rotors, exposed blades and ever increasing weights, there is some danger to them flying around near humans. Not so much with Fleye though. The circular drone was revealed at last week's CES show and using an …
Read More »AltSpace VR is going on a virtual reality tour of North America
While you, I and a lot of enthusiasts and gamers are excited by virtual reality, there's still a lot of people that have no idea what all the hype is about. Some just haven't tried it, but others don't believe in it and more still, have yet to even hear …
Read More »Sony’s ‘Let’s Play’ trademark has been rejected for now
It recently came to light that Sony is attempting to trademark the term ‘Let's Play', a phrase that most are familiar with from YouTube as content creators create playthroughs of games. However, it seems that the US Patent and Trademark Office aren't satisfied with Sony's application and has rejected it- …
Read More »Elon Musk: Falcon 9 will try to land on barge again this weekend
Although Space X spent much of 2015 not launching rockets after a singular failure, it's starting 2016 off with a bang by launching a new payload into orbit this weekend. Better yet, after proving that its Falcon 9 first stage booster can be landed back on land, it's going to …
Read More »Apple has secured half the smartwatch market in under a year
Although the smartwatch industry has hardly taken off in the way many manufacturers would have hoped, it turns out the analysts were right about Apple helping seed what is there. In less than a year since its launch, Apple has secured more than 50 per cent of the whole smartwatch …
Read More »HTC Vive pre-orders to open up next month
Just last week Oculus began gearing up for the launch of the Rift with pre-orders opening up and shipments due out in March. However, there is another big VR launch on the way in the next few months- the HTC Vive, which will also have its price and ship date …
Read More »Tesla scales back car automation, for now
Although most analysts believe that full vehicle automation won't be ready until 2020, Tesla recently jumped the gun and introduced its take on the feature back in October last year to mixed praise and concern. In line with the latter response, Tesla has now released an update which restricts where …
Read More »Researchers claim PlayStationVR to cost between $400-$600
There has been a lot of talk surrounding the price of virtual reality this week after the Oculus Rift officially went up for pre-order with an unexpected $599.99 price tag. However, we still have two more virtual reality headsets to launch this year, one of them being the PlayStatioonVR, which …
Read More »Detailed shots of consumer Oculus Rift package snapped at CES
This week has been an exciting one with CES ongoing in Las Vegas, but Oculus nearly stole the show by launching its pre-orders earlier this week. Although buyers were asked to put down a little more than expected for their future HMD, detailed images of the headset and its accessories …
Read More »Cooler Master debuts new series of RGB mechanical boards at CES
If there's one feature that could sum up keyboards in 2015, it would be RGB backlighting. Thanks to the development of clear switch housings, every mechanical board can now feature uniform (ish) LED backlighting and many manufacturers have jumped on that. Cooler Master was one of them, but it's not …
Read More »Edward Snowden uses Demolition Man tech to talk at CES
Edward Snowden has made an appearance at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. Not, as you might expect, in person, but on a display with its own locomotion, looking rather like the meeting room in Demolition Man. The technology was really important, Snowden said, because it allowed him to talk at …
Read More »Chinese ‘Hoverboard’ booth raided at CES
Despite the two wheeled ‘hoverboards' being one of the more recent boom and bust industries in the tech world, with bans and warnings of dangerous batteries, companies are still iterating on the idea. Are they allowed to though? One Chinese manufacturer has had its CES booth raided by U.S. marshals …
Read More »Kitguru Tech News recap 7th January 2016
Today KitGuru TV's Leo Waldock talks about some of the more interesting news stories posted on Kitguru.net in the last week. Apple has apparently cut iPhone production by 30% – read HERE. Asus announces world’s first monitor to run on just USB-Type C – read HERE. Palmer Luckey reveals more …
Read More »PlayStationVR briefly listed on Amazon for $800
It is clear at this point that virtual reality is going to be expensive to get into, especially if you want a first generation device. While the Oculus Rift was given an official $600 price tag yesterday, we have yet to see official prices for the HTC Vive or PlayStationVR, …
Read More »Palmer Luckey insists that Oculus isn’t making profit on the Rift
Yesterday, pre-orders for the Oculus Rift officially went live, revealing a £499.99 price tag that caught many people off guard and left some questioning exactly why the Rift ended up being so expensive, particularly since the development kits came in at around the $300-$350 mark. However, Oculus founder, Palmer Luckey …
Read More »Papercraft 3D printing shows up at CES 2016
As much as 3D printers are an awesome invention offering home-brew modellers and enthusiasts a chance to create lots of fun items out of plastic, you do still need resin or some other uncommon building materials to actually construct them with. Not so with Mcor's Arke though, as it uses …
Read More »Forget flying cars, passenger drones could be the future
2015 was in many ways, a disappointing year. For all of its technological breakthroughs and attempts at hoverboards, the hard truth is that the year came and went without a viable flying car. Doc Brown would be sorely disappointed. However perhaps there's hope yet, as despite the failings of the …
Read More »HTC shows off the Vive Pre
A couple of weeks back, HTC teased that it had to delay the Vive VR headset due to a major technological breakthrough, which it promised to show off this year at CES. Well, that time has come and HTC now has a new development kit called the Vive Pre, which …
Read More »Razer is releasing a motion sensing, gesture tracking webcam
Razer is usually one of the key companies to look out for during CES as it often makes new product announcements or shows off interesting prototypes. This year, Razer came to the trade show armed with a few things, one of which was the self-proclaimed ‘world's most advanced webcam'. The …
Read More »You won’t be charged for your Oculus Rift pre-order until it ships
Today is the day that we finally learn how much the final version of the Oculus Rift will cost, with pre-orders set to go live in just a couple of hours time. While some may have prepared their bank accounts for the purchase already, Oculus won't actually be charging for …
Read More »Twitter may be culling the 140 character limit
Twitter may be set to bring an end to its most iconic feature: the ability to type no more than 140 characters in a tweet. The number is synonymous with the service, but according to various sources that are said to be “familiar with the company's plans,” the prevailing winds …
Read More »NASA showed up at CES… with VR gear
NASA has been making a splash at this year's CES, but not by showing off technological developments like crew capsules or rocket engines, but with virtual reality. The American space agency brought along a number of VR and AR headsets and is using them to give the public an experience …
Read More »LG shows off world’s first 98-inch 8K HDR TV at CES
LG is making a big push with its TVs this year at CES, not only has it introduced a new range of stunning 4K OLED TVs, but now it has also shown off the world's High Dynamic Range (HDR) 8K TV and it is massive, measuring in at 98-inches. Being …
Read More »Oculus is giving dev kit Kickstarter backers a finished Rift for free
As most of you know, Oculus wasn't always the giant it is now, it actually started off its journey back in 2012 with a Kickstarter campaign to get the first Oculus Rift development kit made. Now, as a thank you to the early supporters, Oculus has announced that everyone that …
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg wants to build AI to run his home
It looks like Mark Zuckerberg wants to try his hand at being Tony Stark as the Facebook CEO has set himself a goal of building artificial intelligence system to help run and control his home this year- Arnold Schwarzenegger even offered to be the voice of it. Zuckerberg set himself …
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