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Earlier this year, Oculus announced that it would have to delay shipping out its next-generation VR headset due to an unspecified component shortage. This delay, combined with the fact that it shipped limited numbers of headsets to retail while pre-order customers waited for delivery, cost Oculus some significant good will — especially since HTC has been meeting shipments for its Vive since early ...
When Microsoft announced both Scorpio and the upcoming Xbox One S, there was plenty of concern that the company might have harmed sales of its current Xbox One family (including the S) by announcing the much more powerful Scorpio console too early. While Scorpio isn’t expected until Christmas 2017, it’s also expected to be an extremely powerful console — possibly more powerful than Sony’s own ...
The augmented reality game Pokémon Go launched last week to immediate acclaim. Early reports of game-related problems focused on server issues as the developer, Niantic, struggled to cope with launch-related loads. A very different kind of problem has already raised its head, however. According to a police report from O’Fallon, Missouri, thieves have used Pokémon Go to target individuals for mugging. ...
When we covered DirectX 12 performance a few months ago, we noted a distinct split between AMD and Nvidia. Specifically, AMD picked up substantially more performance from the new API compared with Nvidia, which typically lost DX12 benchmarks even if it won them under DirectX 11. (Note that this refers to Maxwell, which was still Nvidia’s flagship GPU family back then). The exception was Rise ...
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