Gorillaz’s new trippy music video is in VR

Gorillaz takes advantage of Google’s virtual reality platform for its new music video. Ahead of its new album release on April 28^th, the band partnered with Google Spotlight Stories for its first music video for the album. In true Gorillaz fashion, the music video for Saturnz Barz is trippy. There are two parts to it with you watching the video from a smartphone while in a moving train and then you find yourself with the band inside a creepy haunted house and through space afterwards. Of course we have to mention the catchy tune that accompanies the video. It’s a delight to watch but might not be good to view in the office with a bit of nudity in it.

Source: Android Central

These are the new Tommy Hilfiger and Hugo Boss Android Wear watches

A few days after announcing that there will be Android Wear 2.0 watches from both Hugo Boss and Tommy Hilfiger. These fashion brands have now debuted the two watches at Baselworld 2017. The Hugo Boss Touch is the dressier of the two with its leather band option. It supposedly comes with NFC and will retail for US$395 when it comes out in August. Meanwhile, the Tommy Hilfiger TH24/7You, with its mouthful of a name, seems to be the more casual of the two with its metal link band. It’ll come in cheaper than the touch at US$299 but it won’t have NFC. And just like the Touch, it doesn’t look like it’ll sport a heart rate sensor, too.

Introducing the @TommyHilfiger TH24/7You watch powered by #AndroidWear. #Baselworld2017 pic.twitter.com/EiIZMDHgS6

— Android Wear (@AndroidWear) March 24, 2017

Source: The Verge

Facebook finally tries out GIFs in main app but only for comments

After keeping it away from its main app for years, Facebook is conceding a bit when it comes to posting GIFs. But at the moment it’ll be limited to posting GIFs as comments and not as a post on the News Feed. And it is currently available to a small number of users as Facebook tests out the feature. It’ll work pretty similar to how you post GIFs in Messenger, where you can browse trending GIFs or look for specific reactions to share.

Facebook is quick to say that they are currently just testing out the feature. In a statement to TechCrunch: “Everyone loves a good GIF and we know that people want to be able to use them in comments. So we’re about to start testing the ability to add GIFs to comments and we’ll share more when we can, but for now we repeat that this is just a test.” But who knows if people use it often enough, they might roll it out to more users.

‘The Other Room’ comes to Daydream VR

Escape rooms are a big thing lately. Now, here’s a digital version of that. Called The Other Room, this Daydream VR game requires you solve puzzles in order to escape rooms. Aside from the puzzles, the game mixes in immersive audio and what Android Police calls as bizarre 360-degree video segments. Your goal is to foil your rival’s plans but of course there will be obstacles along the way to throw you off. If you own a Daydream VR and have a Daydream-compatible phone, this game from Minority Media VR Inc. comes with a onetime payment of US$4.99.