VR will vie for awards at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival
As Engadget detailed earlier this year, Tribeca featured VR content in 2016, but films were hosted in a special “Virtual Arcade” away from the main festival and were not eligible for prizes. Submissions included the 20-minute animated short Allumette, the Deep VR underwater experience that’s supposed to lower your stress, and Old Friend, a film that lets you dance in your seat using an HTC Vive headset and...
Ex-Apple CEO’s quirky Android phone comes to the UK for £99
The MV1 features more or less what you’d expect from a sub-£100 smartphone: A 5-inch, 720p display, 8- and 2-megapixel cameras, a 2,500mAh battery, a 1.3 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 212 chip, 2GB of RAM and 16 gigs of internal storage (microSD cards up to 64GB welcomed). Throw in 4G and dual-SIM support, and you’re looking at a device on par with the £90 Wileyfox Spark, the soon-to-be-launched £99 Moto E (2016) and plenty of...
Ex-Apple CEO’s quirky Android phone comes to the UK for £99
The MV1 features more or less what you’d expect from a sub-£100 smartphone: A 5-inch, 720p display, 8- and 2-megapixel cameras, a 2,500mAh battery, a 1.3 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 212 chip, 2GB of RAM and 16 gigs of internal storage (microSD cards up to 64GB welcomed). Throw in 4G and dual-SIM support, and you’re looking at a device on par with the £90 Wileyfox Spark, the soon-to-be-launched £99 Moto E (2016) and plenty of...
Apple Announces Record iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Sales
CUPERTINO, California — September 28, 2015 — Apple® today announced it has sold more than 13 million new iPhone® 6s and iPhone 6s Plus models, a new record, just three days after launch. iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus will be available in more than 40 additional countries beginning October 9 including Italy, Mexico, Russia, Spain and Taiwan. The new iPhones will be available in over 130 countries by the end of the year.“Sales for iPhone...
Lenovo unveils two compact, VR-ready desktop gaming PCs
The idea is to give gamers high-end desktop power that’s easy to “transport between gaming stations,” as Lenovo puts it. Tucked in the small form factor is up to a sixth-gen Intel i7 CPU, GeForce GTX 1080 graphics, 32GB of DDR4 RAM, and a 256GB SSD (or 2TB hard disk). You can also equip it with Dolby Audio, high-end WiFi, an Xbox One controller and an Xbox One wireless receiver that supports up to seven additional...
