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February 24, 2021 | 12:20 Companies: #sony The PSVR kit for the Sony PlayStation 4 / Pro was one of the strongest selling VR products in 2019, raising more revenue than PC-connected devices from HTC and Oculus. In 2020, we saw a bit of an interest dip, largely due to…

A new Oculus Quest feature expands the headset’s Guardian mode by letting you mark your real couch as an object that’ll show up in VR. The Guardian is an Oculus safety feature that lets you draw lines around your environment that act as a virtual boundary and appear in VR…

Old, boring, last-gen VRIllustration: SonyFans of Sony’s virtual reality efforts have been wondering what was to become of console-based VR with the launch of the PlayStation 5. Today the company announces that a next-generation virtual reality system is in the works for the PS5, but it’s not going to launch…

Linux Mint founder Clem Lefebvre has complained that too many users are slow to apply updates or run unsupported versions of the operating system. Lefebvre used Firefox as an example. Mozilla's browser is frequently updated and has fixes for security vulnerabilities described by the firm as critical, which it defined…

When I lived in South America I was subjected to no end of humiliations on the dance floor. Salsa in Medellin, Marinera in Peru. I'm 6'4" and literally didn't fit on one dance floor, which required I squatted and craned my neck. But of all the valiant attempts, Tango in…

PARIS (AP) — The 518-year-old Mona Lisa has seen many things in her life on a wall, but rarely this: Almost four months with no Louvre visitors. As she stares out through bulletproof glass into the silent Salle des Etats, in what was once the world’s most-visited museum, her celebrated…

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) on Thursday 19 February released a statement calling for the immediate suspension of Andre Muller “for denying a student access because of his hair”. “It has come to the attention of the EFF Western Cape that a second-year student from Stellenbosch University was denied an…

Australia got its facts wrong when it made a "unilateral" decision to cancel a cricket tour to South Africa because of COVID-19, the acting head of the South African board says. Stavros Nicolaou said on Friday that Cricket South Africa was left "puzzled" by Cricket Australia's decision two weeks ago…

To the extent that there is a real national debate about the participation of trans people in sports, it is almost exclusively concerned with teenagers in student athletics programs. This is despite the fact that there are not very many of them; one trans student in Idaho described realizing the…

The Supreme Court’s docket is lighter than usual this term, though it’s hard to blame the justices for it. After Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death and Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation, the pace of new cases slowed as the court revisited its ideological bounds. The pandemic and the presidential election kept the…