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Microsoft to draw curtains over Metaverse and VR amid the ongoing layoffs to cut costs Microsoft, which earlier this year announced layoffs of 5% of its entire workforce, has not spared even its budding divisions focused on Virtual Reality (VR) and the metaverse. AltspaceVR and the Mixed Reality Tool Kit, two related projects, are being shelved by the software behemoth. The metaverse and VR projects in Microsoft’s pipeline may experience delays in development and testing in the coming days. The corporation…

Adam Hughes, Jae Lee & Craig Cermak create new Rocketeer stories from IDW Publishing in May. | IDW Publishing is to publish a new Rocketeer anthology, based on the character created by Dave Stevens, with three stories from three creative teams. The development of this new Rocketeer comic project began during the making of the documentary Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection, when filmmaker Kelvin Mao discovered that Danny Bilson and the late Paul De Meo, the original screenwriters of the 1991 The Rocketeer film, had…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In recent years, several states have created or helped to fund specialized banks that lend money to homeowners and businesses for energy-saving and climate projects. Now, states have billions more reasons to establish such institutions, known as green banks. Congress last year approved a Greenhouse…

Last updated: January 6th, 2023 at 17:41 UTC+01:00 The Galaxy A14 5G happens to be Samsung’s first A-series smartphone announced for 2023, but several other models will join it on the market throughout the year. The unannounced Galaxy A54 may be the most exciting of the bunch, and its launch certainly draws near. Samsung may release the Galaxy A54 in a couple of months, and new evidence shows that the phone’s market release in India is closing in. The phone was recently discovered on the website of the Bureau of…

Nearly 60 years ago computer scientist Ruth Weiss of Bell Labs published a pioneering algorithm to turn three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional drawings from any angle. But she ran into a problem with depicting outlines—an issue that has remained a computational geometry riddle for decades. With the ubiquity of computer animation today, this “hidden line problem” is now even more pressing. The trickiest part of rendering a 3-D model in 2-D, a crucial step in computer animation, is the deceptively simple matter of…

Audrey Hopkins, TikTok star artist known for her character designs on Auditydraws to her 13.7 million followers, will host another live, collaborative draw-along for kids as part of Varsity Tutors‘ free StarCourse series. The draw-along takes place on Tuesday, November 29 at 4 pm PT. This time, Hopkins will be joined by another of TikTok’s favorite animators, Casey White. The pair will guide kids through drawing challenges, their creative process, and how they each find the art in the subjects they want to draw. Hopkins…

The U.S. has imported more goods from Europe than from China this year, a big shift from the 2010s when China emerged as America’s dominant trade partner. From Swiss watches to German machinery and Italian luxury items, money and products are flooding across the Atlantic as never before. This is helping Europe’s embattled manufacturers, which are wrestling with skyrocketing energy prices. And it is pushing East Coast ports ahead of their West Coast counterparts in container volumes after years of a U.S. pivot to Asia.…

Screengrab via Marvel Studios The MCU doesn’t just give fans action and suspense. It brings visual stimulation that includes settings, neat gadgets, and awesome suits. Where the latter comes from is up to specialists like Autumn Arkapaw who worked hard to accomplish Ryan Coogler’s DCU-inspired vision in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Ruth E. Carter and Hannah Beachler, who assisted in the making of the first Black Panther film, were brought back to assist in the new vision, which included a good bit of…

Many card games involve chance. Regardless of how good a player or a deck is, having or not having the favor of the odds could either pave the way to an easy win or an unforgettable defeat. This rule applies to the Pokémon Trading Card Game (PTCG). Besides being cards with creatures some of us have come to love, PTCG is a complex and competitive game rich with mechanisms, options, and opportunities, where pure skill won’t get you that far.One of these cards is called Battle VIP Pass (BVP), and I’m not sure if I love or…

Elon Musk has begun laying the groundwork for a round of layoffs at Twitter Inc. days after taking ownership of the social media platform. Elon Musk has begun laying the groundwork for a round of layoffs at Twitter Inc. days after taking ownership of the social media platform. The billionaire entrepreneur, who completed his $44 billion acquisition Thursday, has asked managers to draw up lists of team members who could be let go, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The person asked not to be…