Reality

The youth of the 1980s was enthralled by computer games. Playing Batman: The Caped Crusader, and kicking Joker’s ass, was part of the experience for me. But there’s a movement, the Quantum computing world — how will it shape gaming in the future? Green-Screen Nostalgia When I think of nostalgia, I don’t think about the internet or playing soccer with my friends or watching The A-Team on TV on a Saturday afternoon. Nostalgia, and I’m talking about the pure kind, was playing computer games. Back in 1985 or ‘86, my…

Many companies in the sector have signaled capitulation to reality. In a May shareholder letter, the internet holding company IAC/InterActiveCorp.’s chief executive officer, Joey Levin, wrote that war, inflation and a global repricing of risk have driven an appropriate resetting in valuation frameworks that he expects to last for a while. Yet the fund manager Cathie Wood, in an installment of her webinar, “In The Know," argued that the problems cropping up in both the world and the market give…

The battery industry revenues may exceed $168 billion by 2030 but severe global shortages are highly likely from 2025, a new report said on Monday. The battery industry is set to be one of the most significant over the next 10 years. A compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14 percent is expected by 2030, mostly driven by sales of lithium-ion batteries. However, according to data and analytics company GlobalData, extraction of raw materials will not meet soaring demand unless capital markets change course in the face of…

Image via WarnerBros.com Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers not only provided fans with one of the best animated reboot films to date, but also a ton of fan service.  One of the highlights of the film didn’t influence its plot at all, but instead, commentary on the future of cinema with Batman colliding with E.T. in a future movie project.  Bringing this joke further into reality, renowned graphic designer Boss Logic put his spin on the idea, providing the first poster for Batman V E.T. to life. In this artwork as…

Source: Apple We're about two weeks out from the start of this year's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which begins on Monday, June 6. Not surprisingly, the rumor mill has finally started to kick into high gear for one of the most anticipated dates on the Apple calendar. This week also included news about Final Cut Pro, the long-rumored Apple VR headset, and more. WWDC 2022 The next version of watchOS is expected to be a "significant" update, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The buzz, which doesn't come with…

Apple’s rumored first step into AR and VR has been hush-hush, but a new report indicates that the mixed-reality headset may be getting closer to its grand unveiling. As reported by Bloomberg, Apple’s board got a sneak peek at the company’s upcoming mixed-reality headset at a quarterly meeting. This meeting was attended by “eight independent directors” and CEO Tim Cook. Antonio De Rosa Bloomberg’s report indicates that Apple demonstrated the capabilities of the headset, according to unnamed sources familiar with the…

We’ve seen a multitude of reports in the past few years detailing Apple’s purported mixed reality glasses. Various sources claimed the headset was in development, providing unconfirmed details about the design, specs, and expected price of the wearable. The number of reports increased recently, indicating that the first-gen Apple mixed reality glasses are getting closer to release. A new scoop from a prominent Apple leaker now claims that Apple has shown the AR/VR headset to the board, which signals that a launch is…

A customer looks at listings on display outside a Brown Harris Stevens offices in New York.Brendan McDermid | ReutersThe rise of reality TV shows featuring real estate has been "horrible" for the industry and the image of its brokers, a top brokerage CEO said Thursday."This is not who we are," said Bess Freedman, CEO of Brown Harris Stevens, at the The Real Deal's NYC Showcase + Forum on Thursday. "We want to make sure that we maintain the integrity of our business."Freedman took aim at shows like Netflix's "Selling…

New research explores the imaginative possibility that our reality is only one half of a pair of interacting worlds.Physicists sometimes come up with bizarre stories that sound like science fiction. Yet some turn out to be true, like how the curvature of space and time described by Einstein was eventually confirmed by astronomical measurements. Others linger on as mere possibilities or mathematical curiosities.In a new paper in Physical Review Research, Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) Fellow Victor Galitski and JQI graduate…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A recent study finds that realism is a key factor in determining whether viewers engage with virtual reality (VR) videos—and that engagement is itself a key factor in determining whether viewers are interested in watching VR videos in the future. …