Thursday
Nov102016

The PS4 lets you make GIFs now  

Want to keep a moment of a game in GIF form? Kotaku reports and outlines how it’s now possible to make GIFs on the PlayStation 4. Sony updated the ShareFactory PS4 app to let you turn gaming clips into animated GIFs. The GIFs have been tailored specifically for tweeting. They aren’t high-res and last around nine seconds or so but it is a start. Maybe higher res GIFs will be heading our way in the future.

Thursday
Nov102016

Review: Google Daydream View VR headset

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

2016 is truly the year that Virtual Reality (VR) breaks into mainstream consumer consciousness with products like the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR being made available with game support in many markets. 

For Google, VR has been an aspirational part of their ecosystem every since they revealed Google Cardboard a few years ago and this cheap introduction into smartphone-based VR, has been an evolving part of their ecosystem. 

Daydream View is Google’s next VR headset and is designed to correspond with the Pixel and Pixel XL but is also open to other devices that fall into the required specs.

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Thursday
Nov102016

OnePlus set to out new hardware on November 15

There is a new OnePlus device heading our way in five days. At least that is what we glean from the new teaser from the company. OnePlus tweeted on its official account that the Snapdragon 821 is “coming your way” on a device the company is referring to as T-7. The processor is what you see in the Google Pixel and will definitely be an upgrade to the OnePlus 3’s 820 processor. That isn’t much to go on but the reveal is almost here so we just have to sit tight and wait.

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Thursday
Nov102016

WhatsApp adds GIFs support

Feel like GIFs are the only or easier way you can communicate these days? If you use WhatsApp regularly, that feature is now available to you. You can opt to get GIFs from the likes of Giphy and Tenor or create your own six-second GIFs and convert on iOS Live Photos. As you can tell, the feature is first available on iOS but is said to be coming to Android soon.