After months of delay, Virgin Galactic successfully completed its rocket-powered test flight, bringing the company a step closer in its mission to launch commercial spaceflight and space tourism. Virgin’s VSS Unity reached an altitude of over 44,000 before safely returning its two pilots Kelly Latimer and Michael Masucci,...
Amazon has announced that it has made a deal to purchase MGM Studios for $8.45 billion, the movie and TV studio behind world-famous productions like the James Bond, Rocky, Robocop, Pink Panther, Stargate, and Shark Tank. This deal makes it the company’s second-largest acquisition after it bought grocer...
A team of researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that people experience the passage of time differently when playing the same game in VR compared to playing on a two-dimensional screen. In a paper published in the journal Timing & Time Perception, research assistant Grayson Mullen and...
Snap’s 4th generation Spectacles are its most ambitious yet. The company’s first glasses to have AR features built-in, the new Spectacles can connect directly to the company’s AR Lenses and Lens Studio platform. But there’s a catch: you can’t buy them. The company is instead...
New AI-based technology allows characters in movies to perform their lines flawlessly in another language through deepfake technology, eliminating the lip sync problems in traditional dubbing. The AI dubbing tech was developed by UK-based company Flawless [https://www.flawlessai.com/], whose co-founder and director Scott Mann had become tired of...
Google has unveiled Project Starline, an immersive video chat setup that can create 3D life-size models of speakers during its annual ‘Google I/O’ developer conference. The glasses-free system uses a combination of multiple cameras and sensors to capture the speaker’s appearance from various angles making it appear as...
