Tesla Motors suing former Model X falcon door supplier

One of the most intriguing and defining features of the Tesla Model X crossover are the articulating falcon doors. These modified gullwing type doors allow easy access to the two rear rows of seats and are designed to sense closely parked cars as well as low roofs and can adjust automatically. Tesla Motors is reportedly suing  Hoerbiger, which tesla contracted to develop the doors, didn't produce a satisfactory product, this then caused delays in the shipment of the Model X.

Hoerbiger was the early developer of the falcon door concept but their prototypes were faulty and leaked oil. Tesla farmed the work out to another contractor and it cost the company millions to move development elsewhere. Tesla's Model X is currently under production and the Falcon doors are supposedly working as expected. 

Source: Autoblog

Here’s a first look at the ‘Warcraft’ TV spot

The cinematic take on the Warcraft game finally gets its first TV spot. It’s showing what promises to be an epic 3D battle from some of the Blizzard Entertainment fantasy universe. The film is directed and co-written by Duncan Jones (of Moon and Source Code fame). It’s set to arrive in the U.S. on June 10^th. Some of the cast members include Travis Fimmel, Ben Kebbell, Clancy Brown, and Daniel Wu. Warcraft is a Legendary Pictures, Blizzard Entertainment, and Atlas Entertainment production.

Source: Deadline

Samsung set to open a VR movie studio in New York

Samsung wants more content for its Gear VR headset. And hoping to help push that goal further is a new movie studio the company plans to open up in New York. The virtual reality studio will be located inside an existing Samsung office in the city. The South Korean brand revealed its plans at the Sundance Film Festival. They didn’t go into much detail yet but we’re sure to hear more about it when more concrete plans are made.

The festival also became grounds where Samsung showed off not just its VR material but also a place where they announced a one-year partnership with the Sundance Institute. The collaboration hopes to foster movie makers and other creative to explore the medium. And who knows maybe the 2017 would have VR play a much bigger role in the film festival.

Source: CNET | Via: Engadget

You soon won’t need a Google+ account to use Google Play Games

In an ongoing move by Google to slowly let its Google+ social network rest, one more app will be losing the requirement to use Google+ for use. Google Play Games will soon no longer require you to have a Google+ account to access the app. This means you’ll get fewer permission requests to access games and you just need to sign into Play Games once per account instead of having to do so with every game, unless you don’t leave auto sign-in turned on.

For developers, there would hardly be any changes to games except those games that ask for Google+ “scope” unnecessarily will need to be changed to remove pop-up consent windows and those that use Google Play Games player ID for other APIs won’t return any valid data anymore. Google won’t say yet when the changes will take into effect but it should happen soon.

Source: Android Developers Blog | Via: The Next Web