Google is reportedly working on royalty-free alternatives to Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision. Codenamed Project Caviar, the scheme will create two new media standards – one for HDR video, the other for expanded surround sound. It was announced during a behind-closed-doors event with hardware manufacturers, but …
Fluid One is an app that lets you point and click at smart home devices to control them.Image: Fluid The smart home has an interface problem, and six undergrads from Duke think they’ve solved it with a Raspberry Pi and Apple’s U1 chip. They believe most …
Engineering and robotics student Ken Pillonel has sought to address some of AirPods’ repairability issues with a 3D-printed replacement casing and switching the Lightning charging port for a USB-C port. In his latest video, Pillonel highlighted that AirPods are not designed to be serviced or repaired …
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is reportedly developing new hardware, including four virtual reality headsets. The Information has claimed Meta plans to release the new virtual reality headsets between now and the end of 2024, which are all part of its ongoing metaverse mission. …
While we had a spate of surprising video game announcements at the PlayStation Showcase 2021, hidden in-between all the game trailers was a mysterious reveal for Kid A Mnesia, which is set to be an audio-visual project from UK-based experimental indie outfit, Radiohead, that’s built from …
Researchers at Intel labs have been looking at enhancing the realism of synthetic images. Stephan R. Richter, Hassan Abu Alhaija, and Vladlen Kolten recently published a research paper and accompanying demo video showing a new ML-based technique in action – changing the great but obviously synthetic …
The Apple, Google, and Amazon-backed smart home partnership known as Project CHIP now has a new name – Matter. After the initiative first launched back in 2019, with the Zigbee Alliance at its core, the work has now resulted in a new, formalised standard. The principle …
The League of Legends legacy fan project Chronoshift has been asked to shut down and things got strange, so much so that it’s disappointed Riot. Last Friday, a member of the Chronoshift development team went onto Reddit to share one hell of a transcript from a …
The strength of smart home is the dozens of options that support every goal. The weakness of smart home is the dozens of ecosystem that often don’t play well together. Project CHIP, from Apple, Amazon, Google, and more, wants to solve that, and the standard’s first …
