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Wednesday, 26-March-2014 23:53:30 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Quite a lot of enthusiasts are up in arms at the news that Facebook have bought Oculus VR, creators of the Rift, for $2B. Notch has gone so far as to cancel a Minecraft version for the Rift in direct response to the deal. "Mobile is the platform of today, and now we're also getting ready for the platforms of tomorrow," Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says. "Oculus has the chance to create the most social platform ever, and change the way we work, play and communicate." Which is interesting, because it sounds like they're almost taking aim at Google Glass rather than the previous gaming focus of Rift. It's also interesting because Oculus basically started from a Kickstarter campaign and has now hit the bigtime. Anyway, more here and here, with discussion towards the end of this thread.
NVIDIA have announced their Titan Z - a $3000 USD video card. More here. Continuing the TITAN legacy of supercomputer-inspired performance, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang unveiled the GeForce GTX TITAN Z today at our annual GPU Technology Conference. Built around two Kepler GPUs and 12GB of dedicated frame buffer memory, TITAN Z is engineered for next-generation 5K and multi-monitor gaming.
Dogecoin continue to become more serious while maintaining their tongue-in-cheek status - now sponsoring a NASCAR racer. First dogecoin funds the Jamaican bobsled team, and now their very own NASCAR racer. We may just be dealing with the next big thing in sports sponsorship, just as it's growing up. Too bad, Nike.
Tweaktown have an OCZ Storage. This past week, we sat down with Alex Mei from OCZ Storage Solutions to discuss topics including past, present and OCZ's future as part of Toshiba. Meanwhile PCPerspective checked out Intel's SSD poduction and testing. Today I'm going to lay out one of the more impressive things I saw at the briefings, and that is the process Intel goes through to ensure their products are among the most solid and reliable in the industry.
Tech Report have some info on DirectX 12. When Microsoft announced DirectX 12 yesterday, we learned that a broad swath of existing hardware would support the new API. That wasn't the whole story, however, as Nvidia's Tony Tamasi clarified in an interview with us today. It turns out that DirectX 12 will introduce a set of new features in addition to the lower-level abstraction, and those features will require new hardware. There's some more info over here on PCPerspective.
Today's timewaster is 2048, a sliding puzzle game from biatch.
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