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The Vive Pro 2is HTC's latest VR headset. It offers a significant resolution upgrade and a refresh rate increase over the original Vive Pro. To accommodate older PC's HTC provides a variety of resolution options.

The Vive Pro 2 is just around the corner, and several reviews have popped up online. Now that reviews are out, we have more details about the hardware and how it works. One of the first things to note is that Vive Pro 2 requires driver software in addition to SteamVR and that software controls the headset's display parameters.

The below screenshot was taken from VoodooDE's Vive Pro 2 review on YouTube shows five different resolution options. The Performance setting cuts the vertical and horizontal resolution in half, from 4896 x 2448 down to 2448 x 1224. At this resolution, the display must run at 120Hz. That would be the best option for hitting high frame rates on underpowered computers. And if you want to use the wireless adaptor, you won't even get 120Hz out of this resolution.

DPVR, a VR headset company from Shanghai, recently launched the DPVR Starlink solution, allowing teachers to run guided training with VR headsets in school classrooms. Starlink synchronizes spectator headsets with the instructor's view to keep students focused on the lesson.

DPVR said it developed the Starlink solution to help schools cut down on the cost of implementing VR training systems. Starlink allows teachers to run a classroom lecture in VR, with the teacher operating a PC VR system while the students watch from a standalone headset. The standalone headsets reduce the cost for schools by eliminating the need for a computer for each student.

The piece that brings this puzzle together is DPVR's P1 all-in-on VR headset, a Snapdragon XR2-based standalone device with a 4K display. The Starlink system casts the view of the PC headset wirelessly to up to 40 P1 headsets. That means every student in a class as big as 40 people would see the same picture the teacher sees at the exact moment the teacher sees it.

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc in places most wouldn't expect, where economically millions of Americans are enjoying more money in their pockets each month from the US government than they are in minimum wage jobs.

The situation is so bad that in Illinois that a McDonald's restaurant has thrown up a sign at the front of their store that reads: "Now hiring. Free iPhone". Under that, McDonald's explains that the free iPhone is only "after 6 months employment" and you must meet their "employment criteria".

Corporations offering an incentive for something like this -- a free iPhone to just stay at your job for 6 months -- will most likely become the norm over the coming years. The big corporations are bleeding money as Americans aren't eating out, driving around, and consuming as much as they used to when out and about... well... because not many Americans can be out and about right now.

Acer has just unleashed its new line of refreshed gaming laptops, with the new Predator Helios 500 gaming laptop packing a delicious 17.3-inch 4K 120Hz Mini LED display.

Apart from what should be one of the best displays on a gaming laptop should also be one of the fastest gaming laptops on the market, with the new Acer Predator Helios 500 packing Intel's latest 11th Gen Core i9 processor, NVIDIA's super-fast GeForce RTX 3080 graphics, up to 64GB of DDR4-3200 RAM, and two PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs in RAID0 that can be used next to a regular SSD.

The use of a 17.3-inch 4K Mini LED 120Hz panel powered by AUO AmLED technology has support for full-array local dimming, which is meant to be the equivalent of VESA DisplayHDR 1000 certification. If the 4K 120Hz is too hardcore for you, AORUS offers a 1080p 360Hz display option.

The leaked Battlefield trailer isn't what will be shown in June. DICE is preparing a different reveal trailer for the game, sources tell Eurogamer.

A new clip for Battlefield 6 has leaked online, showing scene-for-scene what leaker Tom Henderson has posted about over the last few weeks--a remote island, a rocket launch gone wrong, jet combat, massive explosions.

This isn't the actual reveal trailer, however, but a clip that DICE was using internally for developer's eyes only. Fans had suspected that DICE was changing the Battlefield trailer because of the recent leaks, but this isn't the case as the leaked footage was never the trailer to begin with.

Guerrilla Games just revealed some awesome new features about its upcoming cross-gen sequel.

Sony and Guerrilla just showcased Horizon Forbidden West gameplay footage running directly on a PlayStation 5, and the game looks incredible. The world is vibrant, bright and tropical, combat is fluid and chaotic, and the facial animations are top-notch. What really caught my eye was the new toys that Aloy can use in battle.

Horizon Forbidden West features a bunch of major new additions that add a new dimension to traversal and combat. Aloy now has a Shield Glider that she can use to fly around the map, lifting the glider straight out of open-world Zelda games.

Sony is currently gearing up to make the PlayStation 5 its biggest console of all time.

In a recent IR Day meeting, Sony Interactive Entertainment President Jim Ryan confirms that the group's spending on game development will increase throughout the PS5's lifecycle.

"We have a very vigorous culture at SIE with regards to control of SG&A (Selling, General and Administrative Expense). One big part of our strategy is to invest in the process of game development. You will certainly see increases in the amount of money we spend in making games at our PlayStation studios," Ryan said.

Far Cry 6 introduces Supremo backpacks, new weapons designed to wipe out tanks, groups of enemies, and ignite everything around you.

Back in June 2020, Ubisoft released a strange Far Cry 6 screenshot that sparked my curiosity. Is that a jetpack? Can we fly around Far Cry 6? Not really, but you can use a jetpack. The older screenshot showed one of the various backpacks that players can make and equip in the game, and now Ubisoft has shown them off.

The Supremos backpacks are basically finishers that are akin to special moves in a beat-em-up. Don't expect to use these all the time and they might require some hefty resources to trigger. Sadly it looks like the jetpack can't actually lift you up and let you fly around and is more for AoE damage than anything else. If you want to fly you'll have to use an airplane.

Techland further details Dying Light 2's City Alignment System which sees the in-game world change and react based on your choices.

A big selling point of Dying Light 2 is immersion and global reactivity. As the survivor Aiden, players have free choice in what they do and who they help. Gamers will have to team up with factions and form and maintain alliances as they journey across Villedor.

The new City Alignment System allows players to change the city's environment. The city is broken up into various zones with small groups of factions, and each safe zone is like its own community. Frist players must restore power and water to an area to make it livable, and once that's done, they can choose who lives there.

Last night Square Enix announced Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate, and now the publisher reveals more details on the project.

Dragon Quest XII is being developed on the new Unreal Engine 5 for next-gen consoles. Dragon Quest XII will make some big changes, including a darker and more adult world, as well as a new combat command system. Dragon Quest master Yuji Horii says the team has a prototype in development and the entire game's story has been written out, but there's a lot of work to do for UE5 optimizations and creation.

Horii says Dragon Quest XII will "take some time to complete."

Nintendo plans to release its new upgraded Switch Pro upgraded model between September and October, sources tell Bloomberg.

The new 4K-ready Switch may be revealed before E3 2021, sources tell Bloomberg's Takashi Mochizuki, complete with a showcase of new enhanced games running on the hardware. The new Switch is said to retain all the major features of the existing Switch, complete with transforming handheld-console form factors with a dock, but major upgrades include a 720p OLED display and video output to 4K UHD television sets thanks to NVIDIA DLSS technology facilitated by a new revamped chip.

Details on this new chip are slim, and we suspect the silicon could range from Xavier with a Volta GPU to Ampere or even the new Ada Lovelace GPU tech.

Old-school NES classic Dragon Quest III is getting remade in the Octopath Traveler games engine

Square Enix is bringing the iconic and visually appealing HD-2D graphics style to more games. Now Dragon Quest III is getting remade in its entirety in the HD-2D engine for consoles.

Dragon Quest series creator Yuji Horii says more remakes could happen down the line, and Dragon Quest I & II might also get the same treatment.

The founder of TechCrunch will be auctioning off his apartment in Kiev, Ukraine, on a real estate platform as a non-fungible token (NFT).

Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch will be offering us his modern, brand new, one-bedroom apartment as a purchasable NFT on June 8. The NFT will be sold on the Propy real-estate platform, and will mark the first time in history an apartment has been sold as an NFT. Propy has already carved itself into NFT with the first-ever blockchain-based real estate sale back in 2017.

As for the apartment auction, it will run for 24-hours, and the listing price begins at $20,000. With the purchase of the apartment is an NFT of the art piece that is one the wall, and a printed cyberpunk picture that comes with licensed rights. Once the cryptocurrency payment has gone through to Propy, the auction winner will receive legal papers already signed by Arrington and that have been drawn up by Propy's lawyers for the transfer of the physical ownership of the apartment as well as the NFT.

A new report has raised a question about Elon Musk's involvement in leading the green Bitcoin debate with the announcement of the Bitcoin Mining Council.

In a recent report from Bloomberg, Nic Carter, a partner at Castle Island Ventures, a venture capital firm exclusively focused on public blockchains, said that he doesn't think Elon Musk is the right person to lead the "clean Bitcoin" debate. Adding, "possibly not as far as the Bitcoin community is concerned." Carter also said that, "Bitcoiners are still intensely skeptical of Musk, and they view him as conflicted, given that his business partially involves the sale of offsets."

While Carter was critical of Musk, he did stress that any effort towards lowering the energy cost for mining Bitcoin, and Bitcoin miners being more transparent about the cost of energy is a step in the right direction, regardless of who is making the effort. Another point that Carter made was that Bitcoin miners located in North America are cleaner than most other industrial consumers of electricity, and due to that metric, he feels that Bitcoin miners will be pleased when they are asked about being more transparent about their energy consumption.

A team of researchers has claimed that the record for the deepest drilled hole has been broken on May 14.

The team of researchers that was aboard the Kaimei lowered a 40-meter-long Giant Piston Corer (GPC) into the ocean off the coast of Japan. The drill was lowered to around 26,200 feet or 5 miles below the surface of the ocean. According to a statement from the researchers, the drill took around two hours and 40 minutes to hit the bottom of the Japan Trench.

When the drill researched the bottom of the Japan Trench, it had drilled a 120 feet sediment core from the ocean floor. The goal behind the exercise was to study the sediment of the drilled area, which would allow researchers to gain more knowledge about earthquakes that have occurred in the region. The previous record for deep drilling was held for 50 years for 23,061 feet water depth in the Mariana Trench. A new scientific drilling depth record for the deepest sub-sea level sample has been set with 26,443 feet below sea level.

A once in 2.5-year event occurred last night as the Earth passed in-between the Sun and the Moon, causing the shadow of Earth to be casted on the Moon.

The total lunar eclipse occurred at different times all around the globe, and what skywatchers would have seen depends on your location as well. Luckily, many people around the world managed to snap some incredible images of the Flower Moon, showing off what people saw in different locations. So, why does the Moon appear red when Earth's shadow is casted on it?

The light that is coming from the Sun is bending around Earth and moving through Earth's atmosphere. The Sun's rays are red, and when they pass through Earth's atmosphere, all of the shorter blue wavelengths are filtered out, leaving the long red ones to be seen on the surface of the Moon. Below you will find images of the Flower Moon from around the world. For more information on this story, check out this link here.

A new video has been created that shows a "pretty close" simulation of how Starship reenters Earth, according to Elon Musk.

Twitter user Alexander Svan has posted a video of his finished simulation of Starship reentering Earth and tagged Elon Musk in it. Musk replied to the video and said it was "pretty close", and followed up by giving some tips to Svan, "No tiles on back side of flaps. Some tiles towards leeward side of ship trailing plasma spilling off rear of flaps."

If you have watched the video, you probably didn't notice the Dogecoin symbol that is painted onto the side of Starship. Below you will find some screenshots of it, and if you have been following the cryptocurrency news involving Musk and Dogecoin, you will understand that this is a very lovely touch by the animator. Starship is a fully reusable, two-stage-to-orbit super heavy-lift rocket that SpaceX plan on using to reach Mars.

A new study has revealed that researchers have used artificial intelligence to create a map that allows them to predict the distribution of dark matter throughout the universe.

The new study has been published in the Astrophysical Journal and shows that researchers have taken a different approach to creating a model of the distribution of dark matter. So far, researchers know that dark matter makes up 80% of the universe, and creating a model of the distribution of dark matter allows cosmologists to construct what is called a "cosmic web".

With this cosmic web, cosmologists and researchers will be able to see how dark matter impacts the motion of galaxies in the past, present, and future. Researchers in the new study used machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, to construct a new model. The AI was fed a large set of galaxy simulations that include galaxies, dark matter, visible matter, and gases.

Zack Snyder has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, in quite a funny skit where he takes a huge jab at Warner Bros. over their total cluterfu*k handling of Zack Snyder's Justice League (and before that, when they screwed him once he was finished directing Jusice League). Check it out:

The Late Show: The Snyder Cut has everything you want... epic cinematography, huge use of green screen and CG teams, a ton of slow-mo, and so much more... everything you'd expect from The Late Show done the Snyder Way. But the best bit has to come when Colbert says "suck it, Warner Bros." to which Snyder backs that up with "yeah, suck it, Warner Bros."

Snyder is doing the press rounds for his new Netflix exclusive Army of the Dead, which dropped on Netflix a few days ago -- a fantastic follow-up to the 4-hour epic Zack Snyder's Justice League on HBO Max. I haven't watched Army of the Dead just yet as I've been moving around my office and home theater, but I can't wait. For now, I'll keep myself content with the fact Snyder got away with saying "suck it, Warner Bros." on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate has been announced by Square Enix, and it will be a darker, more adult-themed game.

Dragon Quest XII was confirmed in the 35th anniversary live stream, and while no official gameplay or screenshots were revealed, but Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii confirms the game will have a more sinister and dire tone.

"It's a Dragon Quest for adults. It's changing, a darker world, the ambiance is different," Horii said in the livestream.