Samsung brings the Gear VR to a new rollercoaster ride at Six Flags Magic Mountain

Samsung and Six Flags Magic Mountain bring thrill seekers into an entirely different world with the new ride. The tech giant is bringing the Gear VR to the new rollercoaster ride called “The New Revolution Virtual Reality Coaster.” Riders have to wear the Gear VRs while on the rollercoaster while a virtual reality video is shown onscreen. The ride’s speed is 55mph and has the first giant loop in the world that is 45 feet in diameter and 90 feet high. Located at Six Flags Plaza, it has 3,457 feet of twisted steel track you’ll be “racing” in while “saving the planet.”

During the soft launch, Six Flags Magic Mountain’s Season Pass Holders got to see a VR video of a futuristic battlefield in a planet threatened by an alien invasion. Another one of the videos you’ll watch while on the ride is being a co-pilot of a fighter jet that takes off from the edge of a building. Your aircraft will fly through the city and go up, down, and twist along the track. The ride will be officially open to the public on April 21^st.

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Snapchat boosts chat features with Chat 2.0

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Snapchat is honing in on its competitors with the new features the messaging service integrates into its app. Its new Chat 2.0 hopes to bring a more intuitive chatting experience for its users. The feature makes it easier to share videos, short audio notes, and stickers to help you communicate with friends within the app. As stated on Snapchat’s blog: “What we love about the new Chat is how easily you can transition between all these ways of communicating—just like you do in person. When that’s possible, you aren’t texting, calling, or video chatting… you’re just talking.”

The app also gets a new Auto-Advance Stories feature that lets stories from your friends play one after another. You can swipe to skip ahead in a story or pull down to exit completely.

Source: Droid Life

LG G5's UX 5.0 is the key to the ecosystem of new experiences and accessories

The LG G5, which we previewed recently here, brings a lot to the table in terms of specs, new design and materials as well as some accessories to expand what the phone can do. The user interface, named UX 5.0, has also been revamped significantly and the above video walks us through what to expect.

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BQ's Aquarius M10 Ubuntu tablet doubles as a Linux desktop for $289

Ubuntu has remained largely in the domain of desktops and notebooks and while they attempted to put it on a phone (which could eventually convert the OS into a desktop, foreshadowing Windows 10's Continuum), that never came to fruition. The Aquarius M10, however, is a real product and one that enables touch-based Ubuntu in a tablet form factor which can double as a Linux desktop.

Slted to ship mid-April, the M10 is available in two prices corresponding to different screen resolutions (an HD offering and  1,280 x 800 resolution costs US $289, the 1,920 x 1,200 panel (with faster processor) costs US $335. Read more about it here.

Source: Phoronix