Thursday: Stripe pledges $ 1 million to California Yimby, the first California death in the lettuce E. coli outbreak, and a video game
takes over the real world.
Snapchat lenses let you place
images over real world photos, previously limited to selfies for things like animal masks on your face.
The game allows players to search for, capture, and train Pokémon characters around their environment thanks to a technology known as augmented reality, which displays graphical characters (in this case, Pokémons)
over the real world captured via the device's camera.
And to the folks that would rather take these «professors»
over us real world folks, you're either very insecure about your own intelligence and can't think on your own, or you are a part of the very same classroom smart, real - world - dumb class.
It's a similar principle to the Pokémon Go smartphone game, which allows players to catch virtual creatures that appear
transposed over the real world when viewed through a smartphone.
In 2014, the International Council for Clean Transportation and West Virginia University identified through their test program, and brought to CARB's and [EPA's] attention, concerns of elevated NOx
emissions over real world driving.»
Haijin is a Japanese word that literally means «cripple,» but it colloquially refers to gamers who spend so much time playing that their alternate realities take
precedence over the real world.
«With the Edge Z5, we've created a system that delivers high frame rates at a very attainable value, giving budget conscious gamers an alternative to overpriced and underpowered big box OEM systems that put
design over real world performance.
The game is free to play for a while, but in order to acquire certain items or play a certain amount of rounds in one day, the player has to
fork over some real world cash.
«Creating a game where players can explore
all over the real world to battle and capture spirits utilising a real - time battle system is, as far as we are aware, a world first.»
In fact, Apple CEO Tim Cook has said he believes AR has more appeal than virtual reality, a technology that places you inside a virtual environment instead of placing virtual
elements over the real world like with augmented reality.
So far augmented reality apps have been limited to overlaying images or
video over the real world as seen through a cellphone camera lens.
I'm also a
bit over the real world right now, what with North Korea and Russia threatening World War 3, United Airlines having innocent passengers dragged off planes so violently they're bloodied and bruised (then the media thinking it's OK to victim blame the poor bloke for his «dark past»), and platypuses being decapitated in Albury.
Google's Project Tango provides camera hardware with 3D sensing technology, which will allow the Asus Zenfone AR to overlay digital
images over the real world.
Augmented reality involves superimposing virtual images
over the real world, as opposed to virtual reality, which is entirely artificial.
What would happen if we used gamesmanship to decide our political future, if comic Internet memes took
over the real world and if the values and vibes of sporting patriotism were infectious, but to a sinister degree?
I had been through this struggle two years back when I realized that internet has been taking
over my real world... in the process leaving me exhausted, not in control of my emotions and time and so on.