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...The first version of Meta’s Ray-Bans, which had cameras and tiny speakers built into their frames, launched in 2021....
...Tim Bradshaw: It feels as though, for the past year, all the conversation about generative AI and chips has been about what’s happening in the cloud. Do you feel like that’s about to change in 2024?...
...Social media rival Facebook has said it plans to launch its first “smart glasses” in partnership with Ray-Ban parent company Luxottica later this year, but that they will not have a display for viewing AR...
...Tim Bradshaw writes that “boring” reliability is fine by him for such an oft-used product. (FT) Our take Two companies sum up the diverging fortunes in Asia’s technology boom....
...“I’m sitting in my easy chair and it’s as if I’m swimming right next to a manta ray — just like I’ve done many times, except I’m not getting wet,” he says....
...As Tim Bradshaw and Hannah Murphy report, the Facebook Gaming upgrade, unveiled today, will start with some basic offerings, but will give developers the ability to serve up more complex sports simulators...
...and “ray tracing”, a more dynamic and naturalistic way of bouncing light off in-game objects and environments....
...Additional reporting by Nicolle Liu in Hong Kong, Yuan Yang in Beijing, Tim Bradshaw in London and Hannah Murphy in San Francisco...
...It has revealed some technical specifications for what many expect to be called PlayStation 5, including super high-resolution 8K graphics, three-dimensional audio and support for ray tracing, a more realistic...
...It’s the bag that Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw, when asked to hand it over by an armed robber, replied, “It’s not a bag. It’s a Baguette.”...
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...Global technology correspondent Tim Bradshaw has interviewed the founders and investors behind these businesses....
...The game engine for Nvidia RTX incorporates AI and ray tracing and is powered by its Turing microarchitecture....
...Ray Bingham, partner at Canyon Bridge, said that with its backing, Imagination would “continue to invest in developing its technology, attract and hire the best engineers, and acquire and service customers...
...Three years in development, Microsoft’s response outperforms the PS4 Pro in sheer horsepower, claiming 6 teraflops of graphics compared with Sony’s 4.2 teraflops, and is capable of playing Blu-ray discs,...
...Reporting by Tim Bradshaw in Los Angeles, Madhumita Murgia, Nic Fildes and Aliya Ram in London, and Yuan Yang in Beijing...
...pictures more rich and vibrant Four years ago, Samsung and LG both unveiled at CES what they claimed were the “world’s first” curved televisions, successors to the flat panels that replaced bulky cathode ray...
...The two companies’ first device will be a UV-sensing stretchable patch that is worn on the skin then scanned with a smartphone app to track the strength of the sun’s rays....
...Its analysts predict that headset sales will lag behind those of Blu-ray players or even 3D television sets at the same point after their launch, with sales of high-end VR systems such as Oculus, Vive and...
...Few schools have hard data on how many students go into the food industry or agribusiness — a term coined by Harvard professor Ray Goldberg....
...It is also one of the first commercial VR efforts to come out of Hollywood, an industry looking to create new revenue streams as it grapples with the transition from physical media, such as DVDs and Blu-rays...
...Steve Jobs The name on the door of an office on the fourth floor of One Infinite Loop still reads “Steve Jobs”, writes Tim Bradshaw....
...Fitting Glass into Ray-Bans, the hipsters’ favourite, might present a greater design challenge....
...Google, meanwhile, is teaming up with Luxottica, maker of Ray-Ban sunglasses, for its Glass project....
...It seems Ray will have to find another way of paying for lessons at the Sir Sean Connery School for Scintillating Speech to refine his particular gift for accents....
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