Windows 10 PCs coming out next year will have Windows Holographic access

Mixed reality is almost upon us. Microsoft Windows head Terry Myerson announced at Intel’s annual developers’ conference that the company is partnering with intel to allow Windows 10 PCs coming out next year to have support for mixed-reality applications. What mixed reality is, as defined by Recode: “The key term for mixed reality, or MR, is flexibility. It tries to combine the best aspects of both VR [virtual reality] and AR [augmented reality], wrapped up in a marketable term that sounds marginally less geeky than its cousins. In theory, mixed reality lets the user see the real world (like AR) while also seeing believable, virtual objects (like VR). And then it anchors those virtual objects to a point in real space, making it possible to treat them as "real," at least from the perspective of the person who can see the MR experience.”

The upcoming PCs will have the holographic shell built in—this is the same operating system running on the Microsoft HoloLens headset. PCs will work with a head-mounted display and run all Windows Holographic apps and this will be enabled by “6 degrees of freedom devices,” which are input devices to add positional tracking alongside other traditional input forms like clicking and pointing. And it’ll be widely available, too. So you don’t require a high-powered machine needed by some of today’s VR headsets. The Microsoft demo video at the conference showed Windows 10 Holographic running at 90FPS on a tiny Intel NUC desktop PC.

Source: TechCrunch + The Verge

Logitech creates new gaming mouse with pro gamers in mind

Logitech has worked towards giving professional e-sports players the best possible accessory they can have: a really good gaming mouse. The brand collaborated with e-sports players to help build the G Pro Gaming Mouse. It took inspiration from the familiar shape of the G100s and the accuracy, speed, and responsiveness of the G303.

The G Pro Gaming is built with a lightweight yet durable design to withstand the abuse it will go through when in the hands of a pro gamer. Its PMW3366 sensor promises pixel-precise accuracy with zero smoothing, acceleration, or filtering across the DPI range.

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Square Enix game director confirms ‘Final Fantasy XV’ release date delay

The rumours are true. The upcoming Final Fantasy XV game will be getting that two-month delay we reported earlier. Game director Hajime Tabata is delaying Final Fantasy XV. It’ll be coming out on November 29 instead of September 30 for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Tabata says they want to make sure the game runs as smoothly as possible when they release it.

"Our objective with Final Fantasy XV was to deliver a Final Fantasy of the highest possible quality to every single person who buys the game," Tabata said. "We have completed the master version but when it comes to that highest possible quality, we felt that we had not quite reached that version yet. In order to make this master version an even better product, we have been creating a downloadable add-on known as a day-one patch."

Source: iDigitalTimes

Microsoft releases ‘Minecraft’ for Oculus Rift

Microsoft announced a while back that Minecraft is coming to the Oculus Rift—a Gear VR version has been available since April after all. But now the wait for Oculus Rift owners is over. A free update coming to the game’s Windows 10 beta edition will add support for the virtual reality headset. The Windows 10 version gets a leg up over the Gear VR version and adds things like support for mouse and keyboard as well as graphics settings that make use of the power of the computer the Oculus Rift is connected to. The game has separate settings for inside and outside the VR headset so you can tweak in-VR graphics or movements that won’t affect the experience if you play it on another platform sans VR.

Source: The Verge