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‘Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’ in Development for Oculus Quest 2

Road to VR

Facebook today announced that it’s working with Rockstar Games to bring Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) exclusively to the Oculus Quest 2 headset. This follows a trend of established studios reformatting older games, such as Capcom’s Resident Evil 4 (2005), for the Oculus Quest 2 hardware.

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AMD Publishes First Beta Driver With Windows 10 Hardware GPU Scheduling Support

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Following last week’s release of NVIDIA’s first Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling-enabled video card driver, AMD this week has stepped up to the plate to do the same. As a quick refresher, hardware acceleration for GPU scheduling was added to the Windows display driver stack with WDDM 2.7 shipping in Win10 2004).

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NVIDIA Posts First DirectX 12 Ultimate Driver Set, Enables GPU Hardware Scheduling

Anand Tech

As well, this driver also enables support for hardware accelerated GPU scheduling. The software groundwork for this has been laid in the latest version of Windows 10, version 2004, and now is being enabled in GPU drivers for the first time. ray tracing and tier 2 variable rate shading. DirectX 12 Feature Levels. DX12 Ult.).

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The Apple Effect: Magic Leap Founder’s Previous Company Launches App on Vision Pro

Road to VR

Abovitz founded Mako Surgical in 2004, and left the medical robot company when it was acquired by Stryker for $1.65 Image by Road to VR And unlike Microsoft, Apple’s primary focus on consumer hardware makes it the ideal “rising tide to lift all boats” when it comes to XR headsets.

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DecaGear PC VR Headset Promises Face & Hip-tracking, 4.6MP Per-eye, and 2021 Launch

Road to VR

The venture, purportedly based in Singapore, is headed by CEO Or Kuntzman who, according to his LinkedIn profile, has co-founded two companies between 2004 and 2013, and was most recently the Managing Director at a now-defunct studio called Betastamp, which described itself as a sort of startup-idea incubator.

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The PowerWalker VI 1500 CSW UPS Review: Trying For True Sinewave on a Budget

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The company was founded in 2004, making it one of the oldest household UPS/AVR manufacturers that still exist to this date. BlueWalker is marketing their retail products under the PowerWalker brand name and has a very wide portfolio of both hardware and software products available.

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Facebook’s Quest to Kill the Smartphone

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When Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004, we didn’t have Android or iOS, but the mobile phone market was well established — think Blackberry, Motorola, and Nokia. That is why Facebook has ploughed billions into VR through Oculus, maker of the Rift headset, and why Facebook is building its own AR hardware.