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Anker’s first 3D printer might be the one you’ve been waiting for

The Verge

3D printing can be a time-consuming and expensive hobby — even if you try to do it on the cheap. But what if a truly consumer-ready 3D printer changed that? For me personally, speed isn’t my biggest frustration with 3D printing. It feels like I’ve adjusted, replaced, or upgraded half the parts on my Ender 3 Pro. Image: Anker.

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What wearing Apple’s Vision Pro headset does to our brains

Vox

The tech world got very fired up in 2013 when Google released a video of a wild concept. It showed a first-person view of a guy walking around Manhattan, texting friends, following map instructions, making a video call. Will we all walk around town wearing headsets and taking video calls while we watch the sunset?

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Pedal to the metaverse: This Seattle techie found real-world pain driving on a simulated racetrack

GeekWire

Frank Chang in the home driving simulator where he tweaked his back while racing in a video game. Like many driving fanatics and even professionals, Chang uses a tricked-out home simulator and practices on race courses in the online video game iRacing. Photo courtesy of Frank Chang). Frank Chang loves to drive fast.

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How Nvidia beat everyone else in the AI race

Vox

From games to crypto mining to AI In 1993, long before uncanny AI-generated art and amusing AI chatbot convos took over our social media feeds, three Silicon Valley electrical engineers launched a startup that would focus on an exciting, fast-growing segment of personal computing: video games.

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Facebook is now Meta, but it’s not quite a metamorphosis

Vox

The company is trying to refocus away from social media and toward building what it calls the metaverse. Zuckerberg also highlighted his company’s efforts to build new products for the metaverse, including new virtual and augmented reality hardware, highly realistic digital avatars, and new video game experiences. Facebook, Inc.

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Intel thinks the metaverse will need a thousand-fold increase in computing capability

The Verge

The state of the art in VR still requires thousands of dollars of PC gaming hardware, with plenty of drawbacks (like requiring a tethered headset and graphics that still don’t measure up to what 2021’s best flatscreen games can offer). The problem, though, is that even Intel doesn’t think that the hardware alone is going to get us to 1,000x.

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CES 2024: Here are the Washington state companies taking tech innovation to Las Vegas

GeekWire

Tread Map is a map-based social media for outdoor recreation that is Waze meets Trip Advisor meets X. Owl Technologies The Seattle-based company is building an AI-powered 3D video maker that empowers people to express their creativity and inspire others in AR/VR. Tread Map The Wenatchee, Wash.-based SigmaDesign Camas, Wash.-based

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