Immersion

All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. All prices are correct at the time of publishing.Back in the 80s and 90s, immersion blenders were often restricted to high-end restaurants and the kitchens of nerdy home cooks. But thanks to improvements in tech, these types of blenders (also known as hand or stick blenders) have become…

Whenever horror games come to mind, I’m always thrown back to my first time watching the original Resident Evil remake via a YouTube playthrough. As a kid, I was too scared to even touch a horror game, so I settled for watching someone else play on the TV using the old Wii Opera internet browser channel. I remember seeing all the goofy cutscenes, laughing at Wesker’s stale deliveries (“Jill, no!”), and thinking the game wasn’t all that scary. “Maybe I can actually play this,” I started thinking. Resident Evil…

Image: Prime VideoA decade from now, a young woman taps into her talent—she is scary-good at VR games, to the point that wealthy clients hire her to play in their stead—to scrape up cash for her family. The Peripheral, which stars Chloë Grace Moretz as the gaming whiz, asks: what if that futuristic VR world was actually real?The new series from Prime Video is based on cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson’s 2014 novel and counts Westworld’s Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy among its executive producers, so you already have an idea…

One of the barriers to complete immersion in virtual reality environments is the lack of complex tactile feedback. Most VR controllers have haptic engines inside of them, but that’s pretty much the limit of what VR controllers can offer in terms of immersion. Samsung, however, is trying to bring more sense to VR and has recently showcased a new technology called e-skin. To be precise, Professor Unryong Jeong of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at POSTECH has received support from Samsung Electronics…

While Autodesk architecture software such as Revit is capable of creating 3D design plans, the partnership will introduce easy-to-use tools to designers, with features typically seen more often in game development, such as Unreal Engine, ray tracing, and a huge library of 3D assets to populate environments. A design plan created using Revit compared to a more realistic scene created in Twinmotion. Image: Autodesk and Image: Epic GamesAnyone subscribed to Autodesk Revit (a building information modeling solution for…

Last Updated: September 03, 2022, 09:50 ISTA video shared by the Western Railway on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. (Video: Twitter/Western Railway) Ganesh Chaturthi 2022: Anant Chaturdashi, the last day of Ganpati festival, witness a huge surge of passengers in Mumbai local train who travel even late in the night for visarjanMUMBAI LOCAL TRAIN UPDATE: To clear the extra rush of passengers on the occasion of Ganpati immersion, Western Railway has announced to run four pairs of extra special local trains in the…

, which also features integrated headphones, but includes a full head strap as well. While this accessory was, as the name would suggest, designed for the Vive series from HTC, it has been widely adapted (via 3D printing and retail adapters) for use with Meta -- and before that, Oculus -- headsets, as well as others. Its combination of comfort and audio fidelity has resulted in it remaining on sale long after the original headsets it was designed for were discontinued. More: The 4 best VR headsets: For gaming, the…

A good blender is one of the most important kitchen countertop appliances you can own. It’s also the secret weapon in preparing food and drinks – like sauces, dips, soups, smoothies and cocktails – from scratch. But which blender is right for you depends on what you’re most likely to use it for. Some blenders are best for crushing ice, making smoothies and cocktails. Others can be used to turn cashews into butter and turn fibrous leaves like kale into smooth sauces, dressings and dips. There are also different…

Intel on Thursday said it would invest $700 million in its new research and development facility that will design next-generation immersion liquid cooling solutions and other data center-oriented technologies. In addition, the company rolled out the industry's first open intellectual property (open IP) immersion liquid cooling solution and reference design that enables data centers to start using immersion liquid cooling without investing in expensive custom solutions.The first step towards democratization of immersion…