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Watch what happens when you pair an Oculus Rift rollercoaster with the real thing

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As reported on Engadget. BY TIMOTHY J. SEPPALA It’s hard to imagine getting bored on a roller coaster, but a pair of English gents figured out a way to make riding the rails even more thrilling: adding VR to the mix. The duo took a publicly available model of an undisclosed UK theme park’s coaster, and imported it into the Unity game development suite. From there, the two smuggled a laptop, mouse, power supply, camera and an Oculus RIft past…

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Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare trailer features futuristic action, Kevin Spacey

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As reported on Engadget. BY JAMIE RIGG With Call of Duty being one of the most successful game franchises out there, you know there’s always going to be a next one. Well, the first trailer for that game has dropped, revealing its full title of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, and Kevin Spacey. The House of Cards actor appears to be cast in the role of a powerful, politically driven antihero (how original), but what we’re more interested in is the little hints…

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Game of Thrones’ season premiere is free to watch on Xbox this week

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS If you missed out on Game of Thrones‘ season 4 premiere when it first aired — say, because of the HBO Go meltdown — you’re in for a treat this week. HBO is giving all Xbox users free access to the episode between April 8th and April 14th, whether or not they’re subscribers to the premium TV service. Some cable and satellite providers are also offering gratis access through their on-demand platforms and…

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Xbox One SmartGlass beta apps bring TV controls to Android, Windows and Windows Phone

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As reported on Engadget. BY RICHARD LAWLER Microsoft only just revealed it would test new TV remote features on the Xbox One and its associated SmartGlass apps, and Windows Phone Central points out that right now anyone can give them a try. All you need is one of the game systems and a device running Android, Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8. We tried out the apps and they install right alongside the standard Xbox One Smartglass apps, although there…

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NASA’s game collaboration lets you steer asteroids without leaving home

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As reported on Engadget. BY JON FINGAS Kerbal Space Program is the closest you’ll get to running a space agency. The game lets you build and launch everything from orbital stations to interplanetary explorers, all in the name of collecting scientific data. It’s only fitting, then, that the studio behind the title has teamed up with NASA to release its Asteroid Redirect Mission add-on. The patch gives you both equipment based on the Space Launch System as well as enough giant…

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The Creator Of Doom Is Now A Facebook Employee

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Matt Burns This isn’t bizzaro world. We will soon live in a world where the maker of Doom, Quake and most of my childhood memories works for Mark Zuckerberg. John Carmack will soon be a Facebook employee. Facebook just announced its plan to buy Oculus VR for around $2 billion in cash and stock. The company will operate independently within Facebook with a focus on gaming. Facebook communications confirmed to TechCrunch that everyone…

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‘Project Morpheus’ is Sony’s virtual reality headset for the PlayStation 4

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As reported on Engadget. BY BEN GILBERT The rumors are true: Sony’s working on virtual reality. The hardware is called “Project Morpheus” and it’s headed to the PlayStation 4. The headset is two pieces: a closed display and what looks like a PlayStation Move sensor built in. SCE Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida unveiled it on-stage tonight at GDC 2014; he said the “prototype” is “by no means final.” It’s the culmination of over three years of…

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The weird world of ‘Flappy Bird’ clones

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As reported on The Verge. By Andrew Webster The end is just the beginning Flappy Bird is gone. The mobile gaming sensation was pulled from both the iTunes App Store and Google Play by creator Dong Nguyen, but in its place an army of clones has arrived. A quick search for “flappy bird” in the App Store, for example, brings up names like Splashy Fish, Fly Birdie, City Bird, and Flying Flappy Unicorn Bird. Most of these games are simply reskinned…

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Freezing Sochi: how Russia turned a subtropical beach into a Winter Olympics wonderland

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As reported on The Verge. By Duncan Geere Organizers have hustled to transform a hub for beach holidays into a snow-filled athletic venue The Olympic Village in Sochi, Russia, on the shores of the Black Sea. ( Wikipedia) Sochi is not the most obvious place to host the Winter Olympics. The Russian resort, on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, is humid and subtropical. Temperatures average out at about 52 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter,…

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Getting Girls Into Programming, One Children’s Book At A Time

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Kim-Mai Cutler I normally dislike writing about the issue of women in the technology industry. The media either ends up treating female entrepreneurs with kid gloves or the conversation ends up in some emotionally charged place where people feel angry or violated. And then we’ve made little progress. Are there systematic biases embedded in the industry? Are women not leaning in hard enough? Do we not have enough role models? All…

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